v. i.
A worm finds what it searches after only by feeling, as it crawls from one thing to another. Grew. [ 1913 Webster ]
He was hardly able to crawl about the room. Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]
The meanest thing that crawl'd beneath my eyes. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]
Secretly crawling up the battered walls. Knolles. [ 1913 Webster ]
Hath crawled into the favor of the king. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
Absurd opinions crawl about the world. South. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The act or motion of crawling; slow motion, as of a creeping animal. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Cf. Kraal. ] A pen or inclosure of stakes and hurdles on the seacoast, for holding fish. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. One who, or that which, crawls; a creeper; a reptile. [ 1913 Webster ]
. (Swimming) A racing stroke, in which the swimmer, lying flat on the water with face submerged, takes alternate overhand arm strokes while moving his legs up and down alternately from the knee. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]
a. Creepy. [ Colloq. ]