Crawl

What “Crawl” means

Verb

1. To move by dragging one's body along or close to a surface, like a worm or insect, or on one's hands and knees, like a human baby.
2. To move or progress slowly or laboriously, or with great difficulty (for example due to feebleness) or frequent stops.
3. To advance by guile and servility; to act in a servile manner, trying to please someone in order to gain favor.
4. To spread by extending tendrils, stems, or branches; to creep or trail (as a vine).
5. To swim using the crawl stroke.

Noun

1. The act of moving slowly on hands and knees, etc.
2. The act of sequentially visiting a series of similar establishments (i.e., a bar crawl).
3. A rapid swimming stroke with alternate overarm strokes and a fluttering kick.
4. A very slow pace.
5. A piece of horizontally or vertically scrolling text overlaid on the main image.

Noun

1. A pen or enclosure of stakes and hurdles for holding fish.

Where the word comes from

From Middle English crawlen, crewlen, creulen, crallen, *cravelen, from Old Norse krafla (compare Danish kravle (“to crawl, creep”), Swedish kravla, kräla (“to creep, crawl”)), from Proto-Germanic *krablōną (compare Saterland Frisian krabbelje, Dutch krabbelen, German Low German krabbeln, German krabbeln), frequentative of *krabbōną (“to scratch, scrape”). Compare also Saterland Frisian krauelje (“to crawl, scuttle”), West Frisian kreauwelje (“to crawl”), Dutch krevelen, krieuwelen (“to crawl”), German Low German kribbeln, German kribbeln (“to creep, crawl, tingle”). See also crab, crabble.

Compare kraal.

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