CRAWL
What does "CRAWL" mean?
To move slowly on hands and knees or with the body close to the ground.
Meanings
- To move along on hands and knees or with the body near the ground. The baby learned to crawl before she could walk.
- To move or progress very slowly. Traffic crawled along the highway after the accident.
- A fast swimming stroke performed face-down with alternating arm strokes. She won the race doing the front crawl.
- Of software, to systematically visit web pages to index them. Search engines crawl billions of pages every day. technical
- A round of visiting several pubs or bars in one outing. We organized a pub crawl for his birthday. informal
Word origin
From Old Norse 'krafla', meaning 'to claw or scrabble with the hands'; entered Middle English as 'craulen'.
Remember it
CRAWL ends in -AWL like a tool that scratches the floor; picture clawing forward, low and slow.
A little poem
Down on the carpet
the child meets the world face-first-
every inch is far.
haiku
Wordplay
- I started a startup to deliver tortoises. We crawled before we could walk.
What it teaches
Crawling is not failing to walk; it is how every walker first learns the floor will hold.
Quick facts
What does CRAWL mean?
To move slowly on hands and knees or with the body close to the ground.
Is CRAWL a valid word?
Yes — CRAWL is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is CRAWL?
CRAWL has 5 letters and 1 syllable.
Where does CRAWL come from?
From Old Norse 'krafla', meaning 'to claw or scrabble with the hands'; entered Middle English as 'craulen'.
What can CRAWL teach us?
Crawling is not failing to walk; it is how every walker first learns the floor will hold.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.