crawler

English

Wikipedia

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɔːlə(r)

Etymology 1

From crawl (“act in a servile manner”) +‎ -er (“suffix forming agent noun”).

From the Australian convict period (1788-1850); a prisoner who was purposely and extensively abused by an overseer (also a convict) and thereby driven to escape but finding it impossible to survive in the Australian bush, surrender to this overseer who would then have his penal term reduced. The particular crawler was picked for his weak personality and might escape and return a number of times increasing his own penal term each time. According to James Tucker, some convict overseers had their sentences extensively reduced using this odious practice. Source-James Tucker's 1845 novel Ralph Rashleigh.

Noun

crawler (plural crawlers)

1. (Australia, obsolete) A person who is abused, physically or verbally, and returns to the abuser a supplicant.
2. (UK, Australia, slang) A sycophant.

Etymology 2

From crawl (“move slowly, by dragging the body along the ground”) +‎ -er (“suffix forming agent noun”).

Wikipedia

Caterpillar D9 crawler tractor.

Noun

crawler (plural crawlers)

1. A child who is able to creep using his hands and knees but is not able to walk.
2. (sports) A crawl swimmer.
3. A tractor crawler, a motorized vehicle that uses caterpillar tracks instead of wheels.
4. A software bot that autonomously follows connected paths such as webpage links.

Derived terms

• church crawler
• kerb crawler/kerb-crawler
• dungeon crawler
• pub crawler

Translations

child able to creep

• Finnish: ryömintäikäinen, konttaaja

• Russian: ползун (ru) m (polzún)

crawl swimmer

• Finnish: kroolaaja, vapaauimari, kroolari

tractor crawler

• Finnish: telaketjutraktori

• Russian: гусеничный трактор m (gúseničnyj tráktor)

software bot

• Icelandic: vefskriðill m, vefkönguló f, skriðill m, könguló (is) f

• Serbo-Croatian: pobirač (sh) m, program pauk m

sycophant — see sycophant

abused person

---

French

Etymology

crawl +‎ -er

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʁo.le/

Verb

crawler

1. (transitive, intransitive) to swim using the crawl stroke
2. (transitive, intransitive, Internet) to spider

Conjugation

   Conjugation of crawler (see also Appendix:French verbs)

		simple			compound
infinitive		crawler			avoir crawlé
gerund		en crawlant			en ayant crawlé
present participle		crawlant
past participle		crawlé
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il	nous	vous	ils
simple tenses	present	crawle	crawles	crawle	crawlons	crawlez	crawlent
	imperfect	crawlais	crawlais	crawlait	crawlions	crawliez	crawlaient
	past historic1	crawlai	crawlas	crawla	crawlâmes	crawlâtes	crawlèrent
	future	crawlerai	crawleras	crawlera	crawlerons	crawlerez	crawleront
	conditional	crawlerais	crawlerais	crawlerait	crawlerions	crawleriez	crawleraient
compound tenses	present perfect	Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	pluperfect	Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	past anterior1	Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	future perfect	Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	conditional perfect	Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il	que nous	que vous	qu’ils
simple tenses	present	crawle	crawles	crawle	crawlions	crawliez	crawlent
	imperfect1	crawlasse	crawlasses	crawlât	crawlassions	crawlassiez	crawlassent
compound tenses	past	Use the present subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle
	pluperfect1	Use the imperfect subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
		—	crawle	—	crawlons	crawlez	—
1literary tenses

External links

• “crawler” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).