2021-5-3 · (intransitive) To move slowly with the abdomen close to the ground. Lizards and snakes crept over the ground. 1922, Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit: One evening, while the Rabbit was lying there alone, watching the ants that ran to and fro between his velvet paws in the grass, he saw two strange beings creep out of the tall bracken near him ...
2021-7-15 · crawling ( plural crawlings ) The motion of something that crawls. quotations . 1840-41, Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop. Miss Brass [ …] devoted herself with uncommon ardour to the study of the law; not wasting her speculations upon its eagle flights, which are rare, but tracing it attentively through all the slippery and eel-like ...