crawling

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crawling

  1. present participle and gerund of crawl

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crawling (plural crawlings)

  1. The motion of something that crawls.
    • 1840 April – 1841 November, Charles Dickens, “(please specify the chapter number or name)”, in The Old Curiosity Shop. A Tale. [], London: Chapman and Hall, [], published 1841, →OCLC:
      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 crawlings in which it commonly pursues its way.

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