crawl
English
/kɹɔl/, /kɹɑl/
verb
Definitions
- (intransitive) To creep; to move slowly on hands and knees, or by dragging the body along the ground.
- (intransitive) To move forward slowly, with frequent stops.
- (intransitive) To act in a servile manner.
- (intransitive) See crawl with.
- (intransitive) To feel a swarming sensation.
- (intransitive) To swim using the crawl stroke.
- (transitive) To move over an area on hands and knees.
- (intransitive) To visit while becoming inebriated.
- (transitive) To visit files or web sites in order to index them for searching.
Etymology
Derived from Middle English crawlen derived from Old Norse krafla derived from Proto-Germanic *krablōną.
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*krablōną
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- acrawl English
- back English
- backcrawl English
- becrawl English
- belly English
- bellycrawl English
- crab English
- crabble English
- crawlable English
- crawler English
- crawlerway English
- crawlsome English
- crawlway English
- crawly English
- metacrawler English
- news English
- newscrawl English
- nightcrawler English
- outcrawl English
- recrawl English
- uncrawlable English
- wall English
- wall crawler English
- wall-crawler English
- wallcrawl English
- wallcrawler English
- way English
- crawl Italian
- crawlista Italian
- krabbelen Dutch, Flemish
- krabben Dutch, Flemish
- crawl French
- crawler French
- crau Portuguese
- crawl Portuguese
- *krablōną Proto-Germanic
- crawl Swedish
- crawlen Middle English
- krafla Old Norse
- kravle Danish
- kravlegård Danish
- krol Icelandic
- craûler Norman