crawln.¹

Brit.

/krɔːl/, U.S.

/krɔl/,

/krɑl/

Etymology: < crawl v.¹

a. The action of crawling; a slow creeping motion.

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the world > movement > progressive motion > moving along with hands and feet or with body prone > [noun] > creeping or crawling

creepingc1440

proreption1656

crawling1768

crawl1817

reptation1831

frog-march1880

1817 P. B. Shelley Laon & Cythna x. xliii. 233 In the silence..Was heard on high the reptiles hiss and crawl.

1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. (1856) xxxiv. 307 I rather dislike the crawl of centipede or slime of snail.

b. A walk at a leisurely pace. beer-crawl, gin-crawl, pub-crawl: a slow progress from one drinking-place to another. slang.

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the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [noun] > drinking-bout

cups1406

drinking?1518

banquet1535

Bacchanal1536

pot-revel1577

compotation1593

rouse1604

Bacchanalia1633

potmealc1639

bout1670

drinking-bout1673

carouse1690

carousal1765

drunk1779

bouse1786

toot1790

set-to1808

spree1811

fuddlea1813

screed1815

bust1834

lush1841

bender1846

bat1848

buster1848

burst1849

soak1851

binge1854

bumming1860

bust-out1861

bum1863

booze1864

drink1865

ran-tan1866

cupping1868

crawl1877

hellbender1877

break-away1885

periodical1886

jag1894

booze-up1897

slopping-up1899

souse1903

pub crawl1915

blind1917

beer-up1919

periodic1920

scoot1924

brannigan1927

rumba1934

boozeroo1943

sesh1943

session1943

piss-up1950

pink-eye1958

binge drinking1964

society > travel > aspects of travel > going on foot > [noun] > walking leisurely or idly > an act of

lounge1806

stroll1814

dander1821

toddle1825

saunter1828

paseo1832

pasear1847

potter1897

crawl1905

passeggiata1950

1877 York Herald 28 Dec. 5/2 The project has been mooted in certain temperance circles for establishing a mission solely for women, who are to be searched for in their daily ‘gin crawls’.

1883 Bird o' Freedom 7 Mar. 6/3 Phil Benjamin was taking his daily constitutional, which consists in what is in vulgar parlance designated ‘a gin crawl’.

1902 Daily Chron. 3 Dec. 5/2 The cockney ‘beer crawl’.

1905 Daily Chron. 28 Mar. 4/6 Glasgow's most fashionable Sunday parade, the ‘crawl’ on Great Western-road.

1915 T. Burke Nights in Town 273 We did a ‘pub-crawl’ in Commercial Road and East India Dock Road.

1927 Blackwood's Mag. Sept. 336/2 During our evening gin crawls in the various camps.

1959 Observer 24 May 16/3 Heads of the dress firms will take the 100 expected buyers on individual ‘pub-crawls’.

1961 M. Jones Potbank xiii. 50 No other men under forty..came into the pub, except perhaps..as one short stop in a crawl.

2015 Manch. Evening News (Nexis) 29 Dec. 10 Gin crawl, anyone? Manchester has no shortage of places to indulge in a little mother's ruin.

c. In full crawl-stroke. A high-speed swimming stroke, in which the swimmer, lying face-downwards, usually with the face submerged, makes alternate overhand arm-strokes assisted by the quick movement of the legs.

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the world > movement > progressive motion > moving with current of air or water > movement in or on water > [noun] > swimming > stroke > specific

hand over hand1844

sidestroke1852

breast swimming1861

steamer1861

breaststroke1864

dog paddle1874

backstroke1876

trudgen1893

frog kick1896

overstroke1902

scissors kick1902

crawl1903

scissors1908

freestyle1916

doggy paddle1921

front crawl1924

back-crawl1929

butterfly stroke1934

butterfly1936

butterfly kick1937

1903 A. Sinclair & W. Henry Swimming (ed. 4) iii. 89 A young swimmer named R. Cavill, who revolutionised all ideas about speed swimming for short distances by introducing a further modification of this style [sc. the ‘Trudgen’], which was at once termed the ‘crawl’ stroke.

1906 B. L. Taylor & W. C. Gibson Extra Dry 32 Arthur Haddock..swam out with a rope in his teeth, using the Australian crawl.

1912 F. Sachs Compl. Swimmer 144 The double over-arm and crawl racers.

1926 Westm. Gaz. 10 Sept. To the school children across the Atlantic the ‘crawl’ is as natural as the ancient ‘breast’ stroke to the average British child.

1930 J. Weissmuller (title) Swimming the American Crawl.

1934 J. T. Farrell Young Manhood (1936) xv. 340 He about-faced and swam the crawl stroke back to the pool edge.

1945 S. J. Baker Austral. Lang. ix. 179 The type of stroke known as the Australian crawl—apparently first introduced about 1901.

1957 P. G. Wodehouse Over Seventy xvii. 160 Perfecting my Australian crawl in the swimming-pool.

d. crawl-out: a back-out. U.S.

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1903 A. H. Lewis Boss 184 That's a crawl-out,..an' it aint worthy of you.

Compounds

crawl space n. (see quot. 1963).

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > floor > [noun] > access space under floor

crawl space1951

crawlway1963

1951 P. D. Close Building Insulation (ed. 4) iii. 67 Floors over unheated crawl spaces should be insulated.

1963 Gloss. Build. Terms (B.S.I.) 9 Crawl space, crawlway, an under-floor space providing access to ducts..and of a height sufficient for crawling.

1967 Boston Sunday Herald 26 Mar. iii. 5/4 We live near the water, so our house was built with a waterproof crawl space.

crawlway n. = crawl space n.

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > floor > [noun] > access space under floor

crawl space1951

crawlway1963

1963 Gloss. Build. Terms (B.S.I.) 9 Crawl space, crawlway, an under-floor space providing access to ducts..and of a height sufficient for crawling.

1965 R. McDowell Hound's Tooth (1967) viii. 78 He..squirmed into the crawlway.

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Film and Television. Lines of text scrolling up, down, or across the screen in a film, television programme, etc., typically introducing the title and the most prominent people involved in the production, or presenting additional information for the viewer. Cf. credit n. 16.

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society > communication > broadcasting > television > [noun] > titles or captions > scrolling text

crawl1948

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > a film > [noun] > accompanying text on screen > scrolling text

crawl1948

1948 Televiser Oct. 16/1 A live crawl is a titling device imitating the familiar film crawl in which lines of type seem to move upwards and out of the screen at the top.

1982 A. Maupin Further Tales of City (1989) lvi. 184 We could work out a credit line on the crawl.

1991 New Yorker 8 Apr. 33/2 We spotted it recently, in the middle of the credit crawl for ‘The Silence of the Lambs’.

2011 Y. Braha & B. Byrne Creative Motion Graphic Titling ix. 331 This lesson will demonstrate how to recreate the famous Star Wars-style backward crawl.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

crawln.²

Brit.

/krɔːl/, U.S.

/krɔl/,

/krɑl/

Forms: Also 1600s–1700s crawle, craul(e. See also kraal n.

Etymology: < Colonial Dutch kraal, < Spanish corral : see corral n.

a. An enclosure, pen, or building for keeping hogs (in the West Indies).

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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping of pigs > [noun] > placing in sty > pigsty or pen

sty?c1225

hoghouse1350

hog cote1414

swine sty1414

swine cote?c1430

swine housea1450

swine garth1459

swine house garth1466

hogsty?a1500

swine hulka1500

swine cruive1501

swine hull1566

cruivec1575

pigsty1580

swine's-steada1599

pigscote1599

hog pen1640

hoggery1642

crawl1661

swine crew1673

pigscot1679

1661 E. Hickeringill Jamaica 17 They build two or three little Houses, or more; by them called a Crawle, and in these, they first inclose these tame Hoggs.

1707 H. Sloane Voy. Islands I. p. xvii These Crawles or houses and sties built for feeding and breeding hogs.

1961 F. G. Cassidy Jamaica Talk v. 95 Though sty is more common, crawl is still used today.

b. ‘On the coast of Africa, a pen for slaves awaiting shipment’ (Smyth Sailor's Word-bk. 1867).

2. A pen or enclosure of stakes and hurdles in shallow water on the sea-coast, to contain fish, turtles, etc. Also a reservoir for keeping caught turtles, lobsters, etc. in stock for the market.

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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > fish-keeping, farming, or breeding > [noun] > fish-weir or -garth

weir839

fish-weirc1000

yair1178

fishgarth1454

eel-bed1483

water frith1584

frith1602

garth1609

fish-lock1661

crawl1682

fish-yard1685

fishing-pen1791

eelery1854

fishing-weir1870

crib1873

ark1883

kiddle1891

1682 T. A. Carolina 28 If near their Market or Harbor they bring them [sc. turtles] in Sloops alive, and afterwards keep them in Crauls.

1740 New Hist. Jamaica (ed. 2) 183 None shall hunt any Gang of Dogs within Four Miles of any Crawl or Settlement.

1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Crawl, a sort of pen..formed by a barrier of stakes and hurdles on the sea-coast, to contain any sort of fish within it.

1833 M. Scott Tom Cringle's Log II. v. 215 The turtle crawls filled with beautiful clear water.

1883 Pall Mall Gaz. 21 Nov. 11/1 The custom is to give the turtles in stock..three days in the ‘crawl’ and three days in the tank.

1885 A. Brassey In Trades 338 The spongers go ashore and build a pen, or ‘crawl’, of stakes, close to the water's edge.

†3. A rural village, or enclosure of huts, of the Nguni, Sotho, and other indigenous South African peoples; = kraal n. 1. Obsolete.

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1771 J. Banks Jrnl. during Capt. Cook's First Voy. Apr. (1896) xix. 441 They [sc. the Hottentots] train up bulls, which they place round their crawls or towns in the night.

1792 W. Bligh Voy. to South Sea iii. 39 A reputable farmer..had information from some Caffre Hottentots, that at a crawl, or village, in their country, there were white men and women.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

crawlv.¹

Brit.

/krɔːl/, U.S.

/krɔl/,

/krɑl/

Forms: Middle English croul, creul, crul, Middle English–1600s craule, crawle, Middle English–1500s crall, 1600s craul, 1600s– crawl.

Origin: Probably a borrowing from early Scandinavian.

Etymology: A rare word in Middle English and apparently only northern; probably < Norse: compare Danish and Norwegian kravle to crawl, climb up, Swedish krafla to grope, Icelandic krafla to paw or scrabble with the hands (Modern Icelandic krafla fram úr to crawl out of). The word existed also in West Germanic, but the corresponding Old English form *craflian has not been found.To Norse krafla corresponds an Old Low German *kraƀalôn , whence 15th cent. High German krabelen , krabeln to crawl, creep, still used in various High German dialects, but now replaced in modern German by krabbeln (see Kluge). The word is a frequentative from an Old Germanic verb stem *kraƀ- : kreƀ- to scratch, claw, paw: compare crab v.² and see Grimm krabbeln , kribbeln . The diphthongal Middle English craule , crawle ( < cravle ), was reduced to crall by end of 15th cent., rhyming with small in Spenser: compare the form-history of awl n. But the phonology of the early forms crewle , creule , croule , crule , is obscure; crewle reminds us of Middle Dutch crēvelen , but croule , crule , suggests some confusion with crowl v., French crouler : see especially sense 6.

a. intransitive. To move slowly in a prone position, by dragging the body along close to the ground, as a child upon its hands and knees, any short-limbed quadruped or reptile, an insect, serpent, worm, slug.

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the world > movement > progressive motion > moving along with hands and feet or with body prone > move along with hands and feet or with body prone [verb (intransitive)] > creep or crawl

creepc888

rampa1393

crawla1400

trainc1475

ycraul1594

sinuate1848

belly1903

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 11836 Wormes creuld [Gött. cruled, Fairf. crauled, Trin. Cambr. cruled] here and þare.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 6612 Þai fand bot wormes creuland [Gött crouland, Fairf. crawlande, Trin. Cambr. crulyng] emid.

1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Dii/2 To Craule, repere, serpere.

1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. i. sig. A6 Serpents small..Which swarming all about his legs did crall.

1665 R. Hooke Micrographia 201 Spiders..craul under the Rail.

1714 J. Gay Shepherd's Week iv. 34 Slow crawl'd the snail.

1863 ‘G. Eliot’ Romola II. xxiv. 300 The children trotted or crawled towards her.

1877 A. B. Edwards Thousand Miles up Nile xiii. 361 We had to crawl into the sanctuary upon our hands and knees.

1890 W. Besant Demoniac i. 15 They spoke of worms, reptiles, and things that crawl.

figurative.1844 E. B. Barrett Poems II. 276 See! the wine crawls in the dust, Worm-like.

†b. transitive. To crawl upon or over. Obsolete. rare.

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the world > movement > progressive motion > moving along with hands and feet or with body prone > move along with hands and feet or with body prone [verb (transitive)] > creep or crawl along, over, or under

crawla1642

creep1667

becrawl1834

under-crawl1844

a1642 J. Suckling Poems 48 in Fragmenta Aurea (1646) Snails there had crawl'd the Hay.

1796 E. Parsons Myst. Warning I. 150 The veriest wretch that crawls the earth.

c. intransitive. To swim using the ‘crawl’ (see crawl n.¹ c).

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the world > movement > progressive motion > moving with current of air or water > movement in or on water > move in or on water [verb (intransitive)] > swim > use specific stroke

to tread water1800

breaststroke1864

trudge1904

breast-stroke1909

dog-paddle1910

crawl1911

scissor-kick1921

freestyle1935

doggy-paddle1958

1911 T. E. Lawrence Lett. (1938) 107 Using crawling and trudgeon strokes in swimming.

1913 T. E. Lawrence Home Lett. (1954) 259 He..swam all over the Euphrates, ‘crawling’ about.

2. transferred.

a. To walk, go, or move along with a slow and dragging motion.

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the world > movement > rate of motion > slowness > move or go slowly [verb (intransitive)]

creepc1175

lugc1400

to hold (also keep) foot withc1438

crawlc1460

lounge?a1513

slug1565

drawl1566

draggle1577

fodge1581

snail1582

laggerc1620

slagger1622

snail1628

flod1674

delay1690

to drag one’s slow length along1711

soss1711

loiter1728

trail1744

sidle1781

soodle1821

linger1826

ooze1847

slope1851

laggard1864

dawdle1872

tiddle1882

oozle1958

pootle1973

c1460 Towneley Myst. (1836) 155 The aged Symeon cralls to kyrk.

1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream iii. iii. 32 I can no further crawle .

1639 T. Fuller Hist. Holy Warre ii. xxv. 76 The Patriarch crawled to Rome, being 100 yeares old.

1681 C. Cotton Wonders of Peake 25 This Fountain is so very small, Th' Observer hardly can perceive it crawl Through the sedg.

1798 R. Southey Eclogues v The poor old woman Told me that she was forced to crawl abroad And pick the hedges.

1810 W. Scott Lady of Lake vi. 279 Mark it as the sun-beams crawl, Inch after inch, along the wall.

1835 E. Bulwer-Lytton Rienzi II. vi. ii. 297 Gloomy vehicles..crawling heavily along.

b. To encroach stealthily upon. rare.

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1826 W. Cobbett Rural Rides in Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 4 Nov. 323 This Forest has been crawled upon by favourites, and is now much smaller.

3. figurative.

a. To move or progress very slowly.

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a1616 W. Shakespeare King Lear (1623) i. i. 41 While we Vnburthen'd crawle toward death.

1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 124 Sicknesse posteth to us, but crawleth from us.

1850 C. Kingsley Alton Locke II. ix. 140 Months and seasons crawled along.

b. To move stealthily, sneakingly, or abjectly.

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the world > movement > progressive motion > specific manner of progressive motion > move progressively in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > softly or stealthily

creepc1175

skulk?c1225

stealc1374

slipc1400

sneak1598

crawl1623

snake1848

slime1898

oil1925

1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII iii. ii. 104 Cranmer..Hath crawl'd into the fauour of the King.

1663 R. South Serm. preached Nov. 9, 1662 35 That..litter of numerous absurd Opinions, that crawle about the world.

1806 W. Scott Lett. (1932) I. 321 These Gaelic poems..are very unequal..often drivelling and crawling in the very extremity of tenuity.

1813 P. B. Shelley Queen Mab iv. 57 Art thou not the veriest slave that e'er Crawled on the loathing earth?

c. To behave sycophantically or abjectly. Frequently const. to. colloquial.

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the mind > emotion > humility > servility > be servile to [verb (transitive)]

fawna1568

comply1641

sneak1665

spaniel1812

yessir1898

yes1915

ass-kiss1951

cocksuck1954

ass-lick1962

crawl1966

1943 C. H. Ward-Jackson It's a Piece of Cake 23 To crawl, to ingratiate oneself with, to make up to.

1966 A. Sachs Jail Diary xxi. 187 I suck up to the police... I don't actually crawl to them but I am so eager to win their approval.

1966 Listener 29 Sept. 445/1 Instead of maintaining an appropriately hostile stance.., Mr Krushchev was ‘crawling’ to Washington.

1970 P. Y. Carter Mr. Campion's Falcon xxi. 155 I'm going to have to crawl... I want to grovel fantastically. I'm afraid I really do need help.

4. Of plants, etc.: To spread over a surface with extending stems or branches; to trail, creep. (rare.)

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the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > grow in a specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > climb, creep, or spread

spreadc1300

runc1425

creep1530

ramp1578

clamber1601

couch1601

crawl1637

gad1638

climb1796

ramble1858

1637 J. Milton Comus 11 A greene mantling vine That crawls along the side of yon small hill.

1668 N. Culpeper & A. Cole tr. T. Bartholin Anat. (new ed.) i. xv. 38 A little..Nerve..which crawls up and down the Coat of the Liver.

1867 M. E. Herbert Cradle Lands ii. 57 Passion-flowers, ipomæas, and hibiscus crawled over every wall.

5. transferred. To be all ‘alive’ with crawling things; also figurative.

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the mind > emotion > humility > servility > be servile [verb (intransitive)]

fawnc1325

crouch1528

jouk1573

crawl1576

creep1581

spaniel1599

grovel1605

spanielize1641

cringec1660

to lick the ground1667

truckle1680

to kiss (a person's) arse, behind, bum1705

toad-eat1766

snool1786

to eat (any one's) toads1788

kowtow1826

sidle1828

toady1861

to knock head1876

ass-lick1937

the world > space > place > presence > fact of taking up space > take up space [verb (intransitive)] > be or become full > be or become crowded > be crowded with things in motion

crawl1576

breathe1824

skreed1825

1576 A. Fleming tr. Pherecydes in Panoplie Epist. 204 All my skin cralled with lyce.

1658 S. Richardson Of Torments of Hell (new ed.) 31 Dead bodies..That lie roting..untill they crawle all over with wormes.

1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VIII. 127 The whole ground seemed alive, and crawling with unceasing destruction [sc. ants].

1863 J. G. Murphy Crit. Comm. Bk. Gen. (i. 20) 64 Let the waters crawl with the crawler.

1902 R. Kipling Traffics & Discov. (1904) 185 There's a whole switchboard full o' nickel-plated muckin's which I haven't begun to play with yet. The starboard side's crawlin' with 'em.

1905 Strand Mag. May 567/1 Shore and bushes near Wells and Blakeney are simply ‘crawling’ with pied fly-catchers and redstarts.

1916 ‘I. Hay’ First Hundred Thousand (U.S. ed.) 305 Country districts crawling with troops.

1924 P. G. Wodehouse Bill the Conqueror vii. 143 ‘He must be quite rich.’ ‘Crawling with money.’

1945 E. Waugh Brideshead Revisited 88 The country is crawling with Communists.

1950 W. Stevens Let. 27 Feb. (1967) 671 The place is crawling with books that we have no room for.

6. To have a sensation as of things crawling over the skin; to feel ‘creepy’, to ‘creep’.[The first quot. here may really be from French crouler ‘to shake, tremble, quiver, quake’ (Cotgrave): see crowl v. ]

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the world > physical sensation > touch and feeling > sensation of something creeping on skin > [verb (intransitive)]

crawla1400

creepa1400

pringle1889

the mind > emotion > fear > physical symptoms of fear > exhibit physical symptoms [verb (intransitive)] > undergo a creeping of the flesh or gooseflesh

crawla1400

creepa1400

horripilate1623

girl1820

pringle1889

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 3567 Quen þat he [sc. a man] bicomis alde..It crepis crouland [Trin. Cambr. hit crepeþ crulyng, Fairf. wiþ crepinge croulis] in his bac.

1880 R. Grant Confessions Frivolous Girl 161 Kissing a ragged infant or two, whose dirtiness positively made me crawl.

1889 M. E. Wilkins Far-away Melody (1891) 15 You make me crawl all over, talkin' so much about dyin'.

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transitive. Computing.

a. Of a person: to surf (the internet).

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1994 Re: What is the Web? 4 Dec. in comp.infosystems.www.misc (Usenet newsgroup) I don't have much of a problem knowing when I'm crawling the Web vs sputtering around telnetting or ftping.

2001 Poptronics Apr. 25/2 I've been relegated to crawling the Net at 24 Kbps (once again).

2006 Washington Post (Nexis) 17 Sept. (Mag. section) 18 He would spend seven to 12 hours each day crawling the Web.

b. Of a program, esp. one associated with a search engine: to follow hyperlinks on (the World Wide Web or a particular website) by an automatic process, typically for the purpose of retrieving and indexing web pages. Cf. crawler n. Additions.

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1993 Time (Internat. ed.) 6 Dec. 61/3 The only fact that can be measured precisely is the number of computers directly connected to it [sc. the Internet] by high-speed links—a figure that is updated periodically by sending a computer program crawling around, tallying the number of connections.]

1995 Computerworld 25 Sept. 162/3 Using a software agent that ‘crawls’ the Internet..the center was able to obtain 5,000 names in a matter of minutes.

2003 Church Times 21 Mar. 14/4 Google is fully automated and its ‘spiders’ crawl the web on a monthly basis to find sites for inclusion in the Google index.

2006 Wall St. Jrnl. 5 Dec. b3/3 You'd have to write a program to crawl the auction site, downloading the information about these 10 users.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

† crawlv.²

Forms: Also 1500s crall, 1600s craul.

Obsolete.

To entangle.

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the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > types or manners of hindrance > hinder in specific manner [verb (transitive)] > by entangling or binding

shrenchc897

beswapec980

taglea1340

tanglea1340

gyve1377

encumber138.

engleimc1400

wrapc1412

involvec1440

fetter1526

mesh1532

crawl1548

felter1567

to tie up1570

in trick1572

ensnarl1593

entrammel1598

engage1603

casta1605

imbrier1605

weave1620

immaze1631

trammel1727

enchain1751

entangle1790

enmesh1822

in mesh1875

the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > entanglement or entangled state > entangle or make tangled [verb (transitive)]

windc1315

harlc1400

snarlc1440

tangle1530

ravela1540

crawl1548

entangle1555

intertangle1589

enroot1600

impester1601

fasel1636

perplex1642

fankle1724

warple1768

hankle1781

intertwist1797

taffle1840

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > snare, trap, entanglement > entrap, ensnare [verb (transitive)]

shrenchc897

beswike971

betrapa1000

bewindOE

undernimc1175

undertakec1175

bisayc1200

beguile?c1225

catchc1225

beginc1250

biwilea1275

tele?a1300

enginec1300

lime13..

umwrithea1340

engrin1340

oblige1340

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enlacec1374

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encumber138.

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enwrap1382

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snarl1387

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trap1390

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betraisec1400

embrygec1400

snare1401

lacea1425

maska1425

begluec1430

marl1440

supprise?c1450

to prey ona1500

attrap1524

circumvene1526

entangle1526

tangle1526

entrap1531

mesh1532

embrake1542

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circumvent1553

felter1567

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in trick1572

ensnare1576

overcatch1577

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salt1580

entoil1581

comprehend1584

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folda1592

solicit1592

toil1592

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1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus 1 Tim. in Paraphr. New Test. iii. (R.) Beyng cralled in the deuilles snares.

a1634 W. Austin Devotionis Augustinianæ Flamma (1635) 282 When we have crauled, and ravel'd our Soules into Knots, at last..wee fall, like a Weaver, to Cutting.

a1634 W. Austin Devotionis Augustinianæ Flamma (1635) 284 The unprofitable Web of my Life, which in the Weaving I have so strained..Knit, and crawled.

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单词	crawl
释义	crawln.¹ Brit. /krɔːl/, U.S. /krɔl/, /krɑl/ Etymology: < crawl v.¹ a. The action of crawling; a slow creeping motion. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > moving along with hands and feet or with body prone > [noun] > creeping or crawling creepingc1440 proreption1656 crawling1768 crawl1817 reptation1831 frog-march1880 1817 P. B. Shelley Laon & Cythna x. xliii. 233 In the silence..Was heard on high the reptiles hiss and crawl. 1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. (1856) xxxiv. 307 I rather dislike the crawl of centipede or slime of snail. b. A walk at a leisurely pace. beer-crawl, gin-crawl, pub-crawl: a slow progress from one drinking-place to another. slang. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [noun] > drinking-bout cups1406 drinking?1518 banquet1535 Bacchanal1536 pot-revel1577 compotation1593 rouse1604 Bacchanalia1633 potmealc1639 bout1670 drinking-bout1673 carouse1690 carousal1765 drunk1779 bouse1786 toot1790 set-to1808 spree1811 fuddlea1813 screed1815 bust1834 lush1841 bender1846 bat1848 buster1848 burst1849 soak1851 binge1854 bumming1860 bust-out1861 bum1863 booze1864 drink1865 ran-tan1866 cupping1868 crawl1877 hellbender1877 break-away1885 periodical1886 jag1894 booze-up1897 slopping-up1899 souse1903 pub crawl1915 blind1917 beer-up1919 periodic1920 scoot1924 brannigan1927 rumba1934 boozeroo1943 sesh1943 session1943 piss-up1950 pink-eye1958 binge drinking1964 society > travel > aspects of travel > going on foot > [noun] > walking leisurely or idly > an act of lounge1806 stroll1814 dander1821 toddle1825 saunter1828 paseo1832 pasear1847 potter1897 crawl1905 passeggiata1950 1877 York Herald 28 Dec. 5/2 The project has been mooted in certain temperance circles for establishing a mission solely for women, who are to be searched for in their daily ‘gin crawls’. 1883 Bird o' Freedom 7 Mar. 6/3 Phil Benjamin was taking his daily constitutional, which consists in what is in vulgar parlance designated ‘a gin crawl’. 1902 Daily Chron. 3 Dec. 5/2 The cockney ‘beer crawl’. 1905 Daily Chron. 28 Mar. 4/6 Glasgow's most fashionable Sunday parade, the ‘crawl’ on Great Western-road. 1915 T. Burke Nights in Town 273 We did a ‘pub-crawl’ in Commercial Road and East India Dock Road. 1927 Blackwood's Mag. Sept. 336/2 During our evening gin crawls in the various camps. 1959 Observer 24 May 16/3 Heads of the dress firms will take the 100 expected buyers on individual ‘pub-crawls’. 1961 M. Jones Potbank xiii. 50 No other men under forty..came into the pub, except perhaps..as one short stop in a crawl. 2015 Manch. Evening News (Nexis) 29 Dec. 10 Gin crawl, anyone? Manchester has no shortage of places to indulge in a little mother's ruin. c. In full crawl-stroke. A high-speed swimming stroke, in which the swimmer, lying face-downwards, usually with the face submerged, makes alternate overhand arm-strokes assisted by the quick movement of the legs. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > moving with current of air or water > movement in or on water > [noun] > swimming > stroke > specific hand over hand1844 sidestroke1852 breast swimming1861 steamer1861 breaststroke1864 dog paddle1874 backstroke1876 trudgen1893 frog kick1896 overstroke1902 scissors kick1902 crawl1903 scissors1908 freestyle1916 doggy paddle1921 front crawl1924 back-crawl1929 butterfly stroke1934 butterfly1936 butterfly kick1937 1903 A. Sinclair & W. Henry Swimming (ed. 4) iii. 89 A young swimmer named R. Cavill, who revolutionised all ideas about speed swimming for short distances by introducing a further modification of this style [sc. the ‘Trudgen’], which was at once termed the ‘crawl’ stroke. 1906 B. L. Taylor & W. C. Gibson Extra Dry 32 Arthur Haddock..swam out with a rope in his teeth, using the Australian crawl. 1912 F. Sachs Compl. Swimmer 144 The double over-arm and crawl racers. 1926 Westm. Gaz. 10 Sept. To the school children across the Atlantic the ‘crawl’ is as natural as the ancient ‘breast’ stroke to the average British child. 1930 J. Weissmuller (title) Swimming the American Crawl. 1934 J. T. Farrell Young Manhood (1936) xv. 340 He about-faced and swam the crawl stroke back to the pool edge. 1945 S. J. Baker Austral. Lang. ix. 179 The type of stroke known as the Australian crawl—apparently first introduced about 1901. 1957 P. G. Wodehouse Over Seventy xvii. 160 Perfecting my Australian crawl in the swimming-pool. d. crawl-out: a back-out. U.S. ΚΠ 1903 A. H. Lewis Boss 184 That's a crawl-out,..an' it aint worthy of you. Compounds crawl space n. (see quot. 1963). ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > floor > [noun] > access space under floor crawl space1951 crawlway1963 1951 P. D. Close Building Insulation (ed. 4) iii. 67 Floors over unheated crawl spaces should be insulated. 1963 Gloss. Build. Terms (B.S.I.) 9 Crawl space, crawlway, an under-floor space providing access to ducts..and of a height sufficient for crawling. 1967 Boston Sunday Herald 26 Mar. iii. 5/4 We live near the water, so our house was built with a waterproof crawl space. crawlway n. = crawl space n. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > floor > [noun] > access space under floor crawl space1951 crawlway1963 1963 Gloss. Build. Terms (B.S.I.) 9 Crawl space, crawlway, an under-floor space providing access to ducts..and of a height sufficient for crawling. 1965 R. McDowell Hound's Tooth (1967) viii. 78 He..squirmed into the crawlway. Draft additions September 2018 Film and Television. Lines of text scrolling up, down, or across the screen in a film, television programme, etc., typically introducing the title and the most prominent people involved in the production, or presenting additional information for the viewer. Cf. credit n. 16. ΘΚΠ society > communication > broadcasting > television > [noun] > titles or captions > scrolling text crawl1948 society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > a film > [noun] > accompanying text on screen > scrolling text crawl1948 1948 Televiser Oct. 16/1 A live crawl is a titling device imitating the familiar film crawl in which lines of type seem to move upwards and out of the screen at the top. 1982 A. Maupin Further Tales of City (1989) lvi. 184 We could work out a credit line on the crawl. 1991 New Yorker 8 Apr. 33/2 We spotted it recently, in the middle of the credit crawl for ‘The Silence of the Lambs’. 2011 Y. Braha & B. Byrne Creative Motion Graphic Titling ix. 331 This lesson will demonstrate how to recreate the famous Star Wars-style backward crawl. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022). crawln.² Brit. /krɔːl/, U.S. /krɔl/, /krɑl/ Forms: Also 1600s–1700s crawle, craul(e. See also kraal n. Etymology: < Colonial Dutch kraal, < Spanish corral : see corral n. 1. a. An enclosure, pen, or building for keeping hogs (in the West Indies). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping of pigs > [noun] > placing in sty > pigsty or pen sty?c1225 hoghouse1350 hog cote1414 swine sty1414 swine cote?c1430 swine housea1450 swine garth1459 swine house garth1466 hogsty?a1500 swine hulka1500 swine cruive1501 swine hull1566 cruivec1575 pigsty1580 swine's-steada1599 pigscote1599 hog pen1640 hoggery1642 crawl1661 swine crew1673 pigscot1679 1661 E. Hickeringill Jamaica 17 They build two or three little Houses, or more; by them called a Crawle, and in these, they first inclose these tame Hoggs. 1707 H. Sloane Voy. Islands I. p. xvii These Crawles or houses and sties built for feeding and breeding hogs. 1961 F. G. Cassidy Jamaica Talk v. 95 Though sty is more common, crawl is still used today. b. ‘On the coast of Africa, a pen for slaves awaiting shipment’ (Smyth Sailor's Word-bk. 1867). 2. A pen or enclosure of stakes and hurdles in shallow water on the sea-coast, to contain fish, turtles, etc. Also a reservoir for keeping caught turtles, lobsters, etc. in stock for the market. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > fish-keeping, farming, or breeding > [noun] > fish-weir or -garth weir839 fish-weirc1000 yair1178 fishgarth1454 eel-bed1483 water frith1584 frith1602 garth1609 fish-lock1661 crawl1682 fish-yard1685 fishing-pen1791 eelery1854 fishing-weir1870 crib1873 ark1883 kiddle1891 1682 T. A. Carolina 28 If near their Market or Harbor they bring them [sc. turtles] in Sloops alive, and afterwards keep them in Crauls. 1740 New Hist. Jamaica (ed. 2) 183 None shall hunt any Gang of Dogs within Four Miles of any Crawl or Settlement. 1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Crawl, a sort of pen..formed by a barrier of stakes and hurdles on the sea-coast, to contain any sort of fish within it. 1833 M. Scott Tom Cringle's Log II. v. 215 The turtle crawls filled with beautiful clear water. 1883 Pall Mall Gaz. 21 Nov. 11/1 The custom is to give the turtles in stock..three days in the ‘crawl’ and three days in the tank. 1885 A. Brassey In Trades 338 The spongers go ashore and build a pen, or ‘crawl’, of stakes, close to the water's edge. †3. A rural village, or enclosure of huts, of the Nguni, Sotho, and other indigenous South African peoples; = kraal n. 1. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1771 J. Banks Jrnl. during Capt. Cook's First Voy. Apr. (1896) xix. 441 They [sc. the Hottentots] train up bulls, which they place round their crawls or towns in the night. 1792 W. Bligh Voy. to South Sea iii. 39 A reputable farmer..had information from some Caffre Hottentots, that at a crawl, or village, in their country, there were white men and women. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022). crawlv.¹ Brit. /krɔːl/, U.S. /krɔl/, /krɑl/ Forms: Middle English croul, creul, crul, Middle English–1600s craule, crawle, Middle English–1500s crall, 1600s craul, 1600s– crawl. Origin: Probably a borrowing from early Scandinavian. Etymology: A rare word in Middle English and apparently only northern; probably < Norse: compare Danish and Norwegian kravle to crawl, climb up, Swedish krafla to grope, Icelandic krafla to paw or scrabble with the hands (Modern Icelandic krafla fram úr to crawl out of). The word existed also in West Germanic, but the corresponding Old English form craflian has not been found.To Norse krafla* corresponds an Old Low German kraƀalôn , whence 15th cent. High German krabelen* , krabeln to crawl, creep, still used in various High German dialects, but now replaced in modern German by krabbeln (see Kluge). The word is a frequentative from an Old Germanic verb stem kraƀ- : kreƀ-* to scratch, claw, paw: compare crab v.² and see Grimm krabbeln , kribbeln . The diphthongal Middle English craule , crawle ( < cravle ), was reduced to crall by end of 15th cent., rhyming with small in Spenser: compare the form-history of awl n. But the phonology of the early forms crewle , creule , croule , crule , is obscure; crewle reminds us of Middle Dutch crēvelen , but croule , crule , suggests some confusion with crowl v., French crouler : see especially sense 6. 1. a. intransitive. To move slowly in a prone position, by dragging the body along close to the ground, as a child upon its hands and knees, any short-limbed quadruped or reptile, an insect, serpent, worm, slug. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > moving along with hands and feet or with body prone > move along with hands and feet or with body prone [verb (intransitive)] > creep or crawl creepc888 rampa1393 crawla1400 trainc1475 ycraul1594 sinuate1848 belly1903 a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 11836 Wormes creuld [Gött. cruled, Fairf. crauled, Trin. Cambr. cruled] here and þare. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 6612 Þai fand bot wormes creuland [Gött crouland, Fairf. crawlande, Trin. Cambr. crulyng] emid. 1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Dii/2 To Craule, repere, serpere. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. i. sig. A6 Serpents small..Which swarming all about his legs did crall. 1665 R. Hooke Micrographia 201 Spiders..craul under the Rail. 1714 J. Gay Shepherd's Week iv. 34 Slow crawl'd the snail. 1863 ‘G. Eliot’ Romola II. xxiv. 300 The children trotted or crawled towards her. 1877 A. B. Edwards Thousand Miles up Nile xiii. 361 We had to crawl into the sanctuary upon our hands and knees. 1890 W. Besant Demoniac i. 15 They spoke of worms, reptiles, and things that crawl. figurative.1844 E. B. Barrett Poems II. 276 See! the wine crawls in the dust, Worm-like. †b. transitive. To crawl upon or over. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > moving along with hands and feet or with body prone > move along with hands and feet or with body prone [verb (transitive)] > creep or crawl along, over, or under crawla1642 creep1667 becrawl1834 under-crawl1844 a1642 J. Suckling Poems 48 in Fragmenta Aurea (1646) Snails there had crawl'd the Hay. 1796 E. Parsons Myst. Warning I. 150 The veriest wretch that crawls the earth. c. intransitive. To swim using the ‘crawl’ (see crawl n.¹ c). ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > moving with current of air or water > movement in or on water > move in or on water [verb (intransitive)] > swim > use specific stroke to tread water1800 breaststroke1864 trudge1904 breast-stroke1909 dog-paddle1910 crawl1911 scissor-kick1921 freestyle1935 doggy-paddle1958 1911 T. E. Lawrence Lett. (1938) 107 Using crawling and trudgeon strokes in swimming. 1913 T. E. Lawrence Home Lett. (1954) 259 He..swam all over the Euphrates, ‘crawling’ about. 2. transferred. a. To walk, go, or move along with a slow and dragging motion. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > rate of motion > slowness > move or go slowly [verb (intransitive)] creepc1175 lugc1400 to hold (also keep) foot withc1438 crawlc1460 lounge?a1513 slug1565 drawl1566 draggle1577 fodge1581 snail1582 laggerc1620 slagger1622 snail1628 flod1674 delay1690 to drag one’s slow length along1711 soss1711 loiter1728 trail1744 sidle1781 soodle1821 linger1826 ooze1847 slope1851 laggard1864 dawdle1872 tiddle1882 oozle1958 pootle1973 c1460 Towneley Myst. (1836) 155 The aged Symeon cralls to kyrk. 1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream iii. iii. 32 I can no further crawle . View more context for this quotation 1639 T. Fuller Hist. Holy Warre ii. xxv. 76 The Patriarch crawled to Rome, being 100 yeares old. 1681 C. Cotton Wonders of Peake 25 This Fountain is so very small, Th' Observer hardly can perceive it crawl Through the sedg. 1798 R. Southey Eclogues v The poor old woman Told me that she was forced to crawl abroad And pick the hedges. 1810 W. Scott Lady of Lake vi. 279 Mark it as the sun-beams crawl, Inch after inch, along the wall. 1835 E. Bulwer-Lytton Rienzi II. vi. ii. 297 Gloomy vehicles..crawling heavily along. b. To encroach stealthily upon. rare. ΚΠ 1826 W. Cobbett Rural Rides in Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 4 Nov. 323 This Forest has been crawled upon by favourites, and is now much smaller. 3. figurative. a. To move or progress very slowly. ΚΠ a1616 W. Shakespeare King Lear (1623) i. i. 41 While we Vnburthen'd crawle toward death. 1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 124 Sicknesse posteth to us, but crawleth from us. 1850 C. Kingsley Alton Locke II. ix. 140 Months and seasons crawled along. b. To move stealthily, sneakingly, or abjectly. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > specific manner of progressive motion > move progressively in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > softly or stealthily creepc1175 skulk?c1225 stealc1374 slipc1400 sneak1598 crawl1623 snake1848 slime1898 oil1925 1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII iii. ii. 104 Cranmer..Hath crawl'd into the fauour of the King. View more context for this quotation 1663 R. South Serm. preached Nov. 9, 1662 35 That..litter of numerous absurd Opinions, that crawle about the world. 1806 W. Scott Lett. (1932) I. 321 These Gaelic poems..are very unequal..often drivelling and crawling in the very extremity of tenuity. 1813 P. B. Shelley Queen Mab iv. 57 Art thou not the veriest slave that e'er Crawled on the loathing earth? c. To behave sycophantically or abjectly. Frequently const. to. colloquial. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > humility > servility > be servile to [verb (transitive)] fawna1568 comply1641 sneak1665 spaniel1812 yessir1898 yes1915 ass-kiss1951 cocksuck1954 ass-lick1962 crawl1966 1943 C. H. Ward-Jackson It's a Piece of Cake 23 To crawl, to ingratiate oneself with, to make up to. 1966 A. Sachs Jail Diary xxi. 187 I suck up to the police... I don't actually crawl to them but I am so eager to win their approval. 1966 Listener 29 Sept. 445/1 Instead of maintaining an appropriately hostile stance.., Mr Krushchev was ‘crawling’ to Washington. 1970 P. Y. Carter Mr. Campion's Falcon xxi. 155 I'm going to have to crawl... I want to grovel fantastically. I'm afraid I really do need help. 4. Of plants, etc.: To spread over a surface with extending stems or branches; to trail, creep. (rare.) ΘΚΠ the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > grow in a specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > climb, creep, or spread spreadc1300 runc1425 creep1530 ramp1578 clamber1601 couch1601 crawl1637 gad1638 climb1796 ramble1858 1637 J. Milton Comus 11 A greene mantling vine That crawls along the side of yon small hill. 1668 N. Culpeper & A. Cole tr. T. Bartholin Anat. (new ed.) i. xv. 38 A little..Nerve..which crawls up and down the Coat of the Liver. 1867 M. E. Herbert Cradle Lands ii. 57 Passion-flowers, ipomæas, and hibiscus crawled over every wall. 5. transferred. To be all ‘alive’ with crawling things; also figurative. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > humility > servility > be servile [verb (intransitive)] fawnc1325 crouch1528 jouk1573 crawl1576 creep1581 spaniel1599 grovel1605 spanielize1641 cringec1660 to lick the ground1667 truckle1680 to kiss (a person's) arse, behind, bum1705 toad-eat1766 snool1786 to eat (any one's) toads1788 kowtow1826 sidle1828 toady1861 to knock head1876 ass-lick1937 the world > space > place > presence > fact of taking up space > take up space [verb (intransitive)] > be or become full > be or become crowded > be crowded with things in motion crawl1576 breathe1824 skreed1825 1576 A. Fleming tr. Pherecydes in Panoplie Epist. 204 All my skin cralled with lyce. 1658 S. Richardson Of Torments of Hell (new ed.) 31 Dead bodies..That lie roting..untill they crawle all over with wormes. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VIII. 127 The whole ground seemed alive, and crawling with unceasing destruction [sc. ants]. 1863 J. G. Murphy Crit. Comm. Bk. Gen. (i. 20) 64 Let the waters crawl with the crawler. 1902 R. Kipling Traffics & Discov. (1904) 185 There's a whole switchboard full o' nickel-plated muckin's which I haven't begun to play with yet. The starboard side's crawlin' with 'em. 1905 Strand Mag. May 567/1 Shore and bushes near Wells and Blakeney are simply ‘crawling’ with pied fly-catchers and redstarts. 1916 ‘I. Hay’ First Hundred Thousand (U.S. ed.) 305 Country districts crawling with troops. 1924 P. G. Wodehouse Bill the Conqueror vii. 143 ‘He must be quite rich.’ ‘Crawling with money.’ 1945 E. Waugh Brideshead Revisited 88 The country is crawling with Communists. 1950 W. Stevens Let. 27 Feb. (1967) 671 The place is crawling with books that we have no room for. 6. To have a sensation as of things crawling over the skin; to feel ‘creepy’, to ‘creep’.[The first quot. here may really be from French crouler ‘to shake, tremble, quiver, quake’ (Cotgrave): see crowl v. ] ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > touch and feeling > sensation of something creeping on skin > [verb (intransitive)] crawla1400 creepa1400 pringle1889 the mind > emotion > fear > physical symptoms of fear > exhibit physical symptoms [verb (intransitive)] > undergo a creeping of the flesh or gooseflesh crawla1400 creepa1400 horripilate1623 girl1820 pringle1889 a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 3567 Quen þat he [sc. a man] bicomis alde..It crepis crouland [Trin. Cambr. hit crepeþ crulyng, Fairf. wiþ crepinge croulis] in his bac. 1880 R. Grant Confessions Frivolous Girl 161 Kissing a ragged infant or two, whose dirtiness positively made me crawl. 1889 M. E. Wilkins Far-away Melody (1891) 15 You make me crawl all over, talkin' so much about dyin'. Draft additions March 2009 transitive. Computing. a. Of a person: to surf (the internet). ΚΠ 1994 Re: What is the Web? 4 Dec. in comp.infosystems.www.misc (Usenet newsgroup) I don't have much of a problem knowing when I'm crawling the Web vs sputtering around telnetting or ftping. 2001 Poptronics Apr. 25/2 I've been relegated to crawling the Net at 24 Kbps (once again). 2006 Washington Post (Nexis) 17 Sept. (Mag. section) 18 He would spend seven to 12 hours each day crawling the Web. b. Of a program, esp. one associated with a search engine: to follow hyperlinks on (the World Wide Web or a particular website) by an automatic process, typically for the purpose of retrieving and indexing web pages. Cf. crawler n. Additions. ΚΠ 1993 Time (Internat. ed.) 6 Dec. 61/3 The only fact that can be measured precisely is the number of computers directly connected to it [sc. the Internet] by high-speed links—a figure that is updated periodically by sending a computer program crawling around, tallying the number of connections.] 1995 Computerworld 25 Sept. 162/3 Using a software agent that ‘crawls’ the Internet..the center was able to obtain 5,000 names in a matter of minutes. 2003 Church Times 21 Mar. 14/4 Google is fully automated and its ‘spiders’ crawl the web on a monthly basis to find sites for inclusion in the Google index. 2006 Wall St. Jrnl. 5 Dec. b3/3 You'd have to write a program to crawl the auction site, downloading the information about these 10 users. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † crawlv.² Forms: Also 1500s crall, 1600s craul. Obsolete. To entangle. ΘΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > types or manners of hindrance > hinder in specific manner [verb (transitive)] > by entangling or binding shrenchc897 beswapec980 taglea1340 tanglea1340 gyve1377 encumber138. engleimc1400 wrapc1412 involvec1440 fetter1526 mesh1532 crawl1548 felter1567 to tie up1570 in trick1572 ensnarl1593 entrammel1598 engage1603 casta1605 imbrier1605 weave1620 immaze1631 trammel1727 enchain1751 entangle1790 enmesh1822 in mesh1875 the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > entanglement or entangled state > entangle or make tangled [verb (transitive)] windc1315 harlc1400 snarlc1440 tangle1530 ravela1540 crawl1548 entangle1555 intertangle1589 enroot1600 impester1601 fasel1636 perplex1642 fankle1724 warple1768 hankle1781 intertwist1797 taffle1840 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > snare, trap, entanglement > entrap, ensnare [verb (transitive)] shrenchc897 beswike971 betrapa1000 bewindOE undernimc1175 undertakec1175 bisayc1200 beguile?c1225 catchc1225 beginc1250 biwilea1275 tele?a1300 enginec1300 lime13.. umwrithea1340 engrin1340 oblige1340 belimec1350 enlacec1374 girnc1375 encumber138. gnarec1380 enwrap1382 briguea1387 snarl1387 upbroid1387 trap1390 entrikea1393 englue1393 gildera1400 aguilec1400 betraisec1400 embrygec1400 snare1401 lacea1425 maska1425 begluec1430 marl1440 supprise?c1450 to prey ona1500 attrap1524 circumvene1526 entangle1526 tangle1526 entrap1531 mesh1532 embrake1542 crawl1548 illaqueate1548 intricate1548 inveigle1551 circumvent1553 felter1567 besnare1571 in trick1572 ensnare1576 overcatch1577 underfong1579 salt1580 entoil1581 comprehend1584 windlassa1586 folda1592 solicit1592 toil1592 bait1600 beset1600 engage1603 benet1604 imbrier1605 ambush1611 inknot1611 enmesha1616 trammela1616 fool1620 pinion1621 aucupate1630 fang1637 surprise1642 underreacha1652 trepan1656 ensnarl1658 stalk1659 irretiate1660 coil1748 nail1766 net1803 to rope in1840 mousetrap1870 spider1891 1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus 1 Tim. in Paraphr. New Test. iii. (R.) Beyng cralled in the deuilles snares. a1634 W. Austin Devotionis Augustinianæ Flamma (1635) 282 When we have crauled, and ravel'd our Soules into Knots, at last..wee fall, like a Weaver, to Cutting. a1634 W. Austin Devotionis Augustinianæ Flamma (1635) 284 The unprofitable Web of my Life, which in the Weaving I have so strained..Knit, and crawled. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.¹1817n.²1661v.¹a1400v.²1548
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