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crawling

noun

  1. moving along the ground on hands and knees
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈkɹɔːlɪŋ/ / /ˈkɹɑlɪŋ/ / /ˈkɹaːlɪn/

noun

  1. The motion of something that crawls.

    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.

verb

  1. present participle and gerund of crawl