Definition of crawl

• v. i. - To move slowly by drawing the body along the ground, as a worm; to move slowly on hands and knees; to creep.
• v. i. - to move or advance in a feeble, slow, or timorous manner.
• v. i. - To advance slowly and furtively; to insinuate one's self; to advance or gain influence by servile or obsequious conduct.
• v. i. - To have a sensation as of insect creeping over the body; as, the flesh crawls. See Creep, v. i., 7.
• n. - The act or motion of crawling; slow motion, as of a creeping animal.
• n. - A pen or inclosure of stakes and hurdles on the seacoast, for holding fish.