Definitions for Crawl
krɔlcrawl

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. crawlnoun

   a very slow movement

   "the traffic advanced at a crawl"

2. crawl, front crawl, Australian crawlnoun

   a swimming stroke; arms are moved alternately overhead accompanied by a flutter kick

3. crawl, crawling, creep, creepingverb

   a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body

   "a crawl was all that the injured man could manage"; "the traffic moved at a creep"

4. crawl, creepverb

   move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground

   "The crocodile was crawling along the riverbed"

5. crawlverb

   feel as if crawling with insects

   "My skin crawled--I was terrified"

6. crawlverb

   be full of

   "The old cheese was crawling with maggots"

7. fawn, crawl, creep, cringe, cower, grovelverb

   show submission or fear

8. crawlverb

   swim by doing the crawl

   "European children learn the breast stroke; they often don't know how to crawl"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. crawlnoun

   The act of moving slowly on hands and knees etc, or with frequent stops

2. crawlnoun

   A rapid swimming stroke with alternate overarm strokes and a fluttering kick

3. crawlnoun

   A piece of horizontally scrolling text overlaid on the main image.

4. crawlverb

   To creep; to move slowly on hands and knees, or by dragging the body along the ground.

   Clutching my wounded side, I crawled back to the trench.

5. crawlverb

   To move forward slowly, with frequent stops.

   The rush-hour traffic crawled around the bypass.

6. crawlverb

   To act in a servile manner.

   Don't come crawling to me with your useless apologies!

7. crawlverb

   See crawl with.

8. crawlverb

   To feel a swarming sensation.

   The horrible sight made my skin crawl.

9. crawlverb

   To swim using the crawl stroke.

   I think I'll crawl the next hundred metres.

10. crawlverb

    To move over an area on hands and knees.

    The baby crawled the entire second floor.

11. crawlverb

    To visit while becoming inebriated.

    They crawled the downtown bars.

12. crawlverb

    To visit files or web sites in order to index them for searching.

    Yahoo Search has updated its Slurp Crawler to crawl web sites faster and more efficient.

13. Etymology: crawlen, from krafla (cf. Danish kravle ‘to crawl, creep’, Swedish kravla), from krablōnan (cf. Dutch krabbelen, Low German, Middle High German krappeln), frequentative of krabbōnan ‘to scratch, scrape’. More at crab.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. To CRAWLverb

   Etymology: krielen, Dutch.

   1. To creep; to move with a slow motion; to move without rising from the ground, as a worm.

   That crawling insect, who from mud began;
   Warm’d by my beams, and kindled into man! John Dryden, Auren.

   The streams but just contain’d within their bounds,
   By slow degrees into their channels crawl;
   And earth increases as the waters fall. Dryden.

   A worm finds what it searches after, only by feeling, as it crawls from one thing to another. Nehemiah Grew, Cosmol. b. ii. c. 8.

   The vile worm, that yesterday began
   To crawl; thy fellow-creature, abject man! Matthew Prior.

   2. To move weakly, and slowly.

   ’Tis our first intent
   To shake all cares and business from our age,
   While we unburthen’d crawl tow’rd death. William Shakespeare, K. Lear.

   They like tall fellows crept out of the holes; and secretly crawling up the battered walls of the fort, got into it. Richard Knolles.

   A look so pale no quartane ever gave;
   Thy dwindled legs seem crawling to a grave. John Dryden, Juvenal.

   He was hardly able to crawl about the room, far less to look after a troublesome business. John Arbuthnot, History of John Bull.

   Man is a very worm by birth,
   Vile reptile, weak and vain!
   A while he crawls upon the earth,
   Then shrinks to earth again. Jonathan Swift.

   It will be very necessary for the threadbare gownman, and every child who can crawl, to watch the fields at harvest-time. Jonathan Swift.

   3. To move about hated and despised.

   Cranmer
   Hath crawl’d into the favour of the king,
   And is his oracle. William Shakespeare, Henry VIII.

   Reflect upon that litter of absurd opinions that crawl about the world, to the disgrace of reason. Robert South, Sermons.

   How will the condemned sinner then crawl forth, and appear in his filth and shame, before that undefiled tribunal? Robert South, Sermons.

   Behold a rev’rend fire, whom want of grace
   Has made the father of a nameless race,
   Crawl through the street, shov’d on, or rudely press’d
   By his own sons, that pass him by unbless’d! Alexander Pope, Epist. i.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Crawl

   Crawl is a song by American recording artist Chris Brown. It is the second single from his third studio album Graffiti, released as a digital download on November 24, 2009. The song was produced by The Messengers and was written by Brown. The song is about yearning to rebuild a failed relationship and was interpreted by critics as being about Brown's former relationship with Barbadian singer Rihanna. However, Brown has stated the song is not about any of his previous relationships. The song received positive to mixed reviews. It charted in the top twenty in Japan and New Zealand, and the top forty in the United Kingdom and Ireland. It peaked in the United States at number fifty-three. The accompanying music video features Brown and American R&B singer Cassie as his love interest. In the video, he yearns for their relationship on a winter night in a city and in a desert scene. Brown performed the song on his 2009 Fan Appreciation Tour, and on BET's SOS: Help for Haiti Telethon, which benefited victims of the 2010 Haiti earthquake.

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1. crawl

   Crawl generally refers to a slow and continuous movement, typically performed by humans or animals, where they move forward by using their hands and knees or by dragging their bodies along the ground. It can also refer to the action of computer programs systematically scanning websites or the internet to gather data or index content.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Crawlverb

   to move slowly by drawing the body along the ground, as a worm; to move slowly on hands and knees; to creep

2. Crawlverb

   to move or advance in a feeble, slow, or timorous manner

3. Crawlverb

   to advance slowly and furtively; to insinuate one's self; to advance or gain influence by servile or obsequious conduct

4. Crawlverb

   to have a sensation as of insect creeping over the body; as, the flesh crawls. See Creep, v. i., 7

5. Crawlnoun

   the act or motion of crawling; slow motion, as of a creeping animal

6. Crawlnoun

   a pen or inclosure of stakes and hurdles on the seacoast, for holding fish

7. Etymology: [Dan. kravle, or Icel. krafla, to paw, scrabble with the hands; akin to Sw. krla to crawl; cf. LG. krabbeln, D. krabbelen to scratch.]

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1. Crawl

   "Crawl" is the first single from New Zealand rock band Atlas released in 2007. It was featured on their debut album Reasons for Voyaging. It is one of the most successful New Zealand rock songs of the 21st century, staying atop the charts for seven weeks.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Crawl

   krawl, v.i. to move slowly along the ground, as a worm: to creep: to move feebly, stealthily, or sneakingly: to be covered with crawling things.—n. the act of crawling.—ns. Crawl′er, one who or that which crawls: a reptile; Crawl′ing.—adv. Crawl′y (coll.), with a creepy feeling. [Scand.; Ice. krafla, Dan. kravle; Ger. krabbeln, to creep.]

2. Crawl

   krawl, n. a pen for keeping fish: a kraal.

Dictionary of Nautical TermsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. crawl

   A sort of pen, formed by a barrier of stakes and hurdles on the sea-coast, to contain fish or turtle. On the coast of Africa, a pen for slaves awaiting shipment.

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1. crawl

   Song lyrics by crawl -- Explore a large variety of song lyrics performed by crawl on the Lyrics.com website.

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. CRAWL

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Crawl is ranked #53204 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Crawl surname appeared 389 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Crawl.
   
   80.4% or 313 total occurrences were Black.
   11.8% or 46 total occurrences were White.
   4.1% or 16 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   3.3% or 13 total occurrences were of two or more races.

Matched Categories

1. • Aquatics
   • Feel
   • Motion
   • Move
   • Swarm
   • Swim

British National Corpus

1. Verbs Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Crawl' in Verbs Frequency: #1016

How to pronounce Crawl?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say Crawl in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Crawl in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Crawl in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of Crawl in a Sentence

1. Van Doormaal:

   We noticed an immediate difference. The biggest changes are her head control, really quickly after the treatment she was able to hold her head up which is something she's never done before. She can sit with some support and hopefully one day she'll crawl, maybe one day she'll even walk. That's really an optimistic dream, I know, but we like to have high expectations and we don't want to hold her back.

2. Larry Orton:

   It could be easily equipped to handle drainline stoppages, we have a number of different snakes—some with cameras, some with extended cables—that we use, depending on the clog. We could fit all the snakes and some repair materials on the City Express, along with a larger sewer machine and pressure-jetting equipment. I would rig the van with a winch to help unload the heavier equipment and bins for materials. And the dual side doors make access from either side excellent. You don’t need to crawl all over everything to get what you need. It would be the ideal specialized vehicle for that.

3. Paul Veneto:

   All I had to do was just push a cart, i was always going to do it. I was going to crawl with it, I was going to swim with it, I was going to carry it, I was going to do whatever I had do to, but all I had to do was just keep pushing, rain or shine.

4. Kenneth Kaitin:

   Scott Gottlieb have to plan these activities in advance because Scott Gottlieb don't just suddenly have a building that's making drugs, when this shutdown ever ends, there's going to be, I think, a formidable backlog of applications that's going to slow everything down to a crawl for a while.

5. John Bodrozic:

   If this happens, you end up spending more on utility costs because the air you’re paying to heat or cool is escaping from the loose ductwork into the attic or crawl space, not into your living space.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Crawl
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Crawl
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=Crawl
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crawl
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Crawl
7. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=Crawl
8. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=Crawl
9. ^ Dictionary of Nautical Terms
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/26000/pg26000-images.html#:~:text=Crawl
10. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
    https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html