crawl:
n 1: a very slow movement; "the traffic advanced at a crawl" 2: a swimming stroke; arms are moved alternately overhead accompanied by a flutter kick [syn: front crawl, Australian crawl] 3: 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: crawling, creep, creeping] v 1: move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground; "The crocodile was crawling along the riverbed" [syn: creep] 2: feel as if crawling with insects; "My skin crawled--I was terrified" 3: be crawling with; "The old cheese was crawling with maggots" 4: show submission or fear [syn: fawn, creep, cringe, cower, grovel] 5: swim by doing the crawl; "European children learn the breast stroke; they often don't know how to crawl"
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