0 present participle of crawl
1 to move slowly or with difficulty, especially with your body stretched out along the ground or on hands and knees:
3 to be completely covered with or full of a particular type of thing:
The pariahs looked like disgusting creatures crawling upon their bellies.
Then crawling a few steps was commenced, keeping the same relaxed, lengthened posture.
A foreign woman in modern clothes runs across the stage, and others follow, crawling across, over and under the spectators' rostra, prowling about or hiding.
That was a pre-announced crawling peg, so analytically the new regime was equivalent to the fixed exchange rate.
Soaked socks, torn drum skins, hands crawling at the mesh of playpens while tinny xylophones plunked eerily pinching fingers.