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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:

  Crawl \Crawl\ (kr[add]l), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Crawled}
     (kr[add]ld); p. pr. & vb. n. {Crawling}.] [Dan. kravle, or
     Icel. krafla, to paw, scrabble with the hands; akin to Sw.
     kr[aum]la to crawl; cf. LG. krabbeln, D. krabbelen to
     scratch.]
     1. To move slowly by drawing the body along the ground, as a
        worm; to move slowly on hands and knees; to creep.
  
              A worm finds what it searches after only by feeling,
              as it crawls from one thing to another. --Grew.
  
     2. Hence, to move or advance in a feeble, slow, or timorous
        manner.
  
              He was hardly able to crawl about the room.
                                                    --Arbuthnot.
  
              The meanest thing that crawl'd beneath my eyes.
                                                    --Byron.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  crawling
       n : a slow creeping mode of locomotion (on hands and knees or
           dragging the body); "a crawl was all that the injured man
           could manage"; "the traffic moved at a creep" [syn: {crawl},
            {creep}, {creeping}]

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