\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.
3. To advance slowly and furtively; to insinuate one's self;
   to advance or gain influence by servile or obsequious
   conduct.
         Secretly crawling up the battered walls. --Knolles.
         Hath crawled into the favor of the king. --Shak.
         Absurd opinions crawl about the world. --South.
4. To have a sensation as of insect creeping over the body;
   as, the flesh crawls. See {Creep}, v. i., 7.

\Crawl\ (kr?l), n.
The act or motion of crawling; slow motion, as of a creeping
animal.

\Crawl\, n. [Cf. {Kraal}.]
A pen or inclosure of stakes and hurdles on the seacoast, for
holding fish.