crawl

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A pen in shallow water, as for confining fish or turtles.
• intransitive verb To move slowly on the hands and knees or by dragging the body along the ground; creep.
• intransitive verb To advance slowly, feebly, laboriously, or with frequent stops.
• intransitive verb To proceed or act servilely.
• intransitive verb To be or feel as if swarming or covered with moving things.
• intransitive verb To swim the crawl.
• noun The action of moving slowly on the hands or knees or dragging the body along the ground.
• noun An extremely slow pace.
• noun Sports A rapid swimming stroke consisting of alternating overarm strokes and a flutter kick.
• noun A set of letters or figures that move across, up, or down a movie or television screen, usually giving information, such as film credits or weather alerts.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun The act of crawling; a slow, crawling motion: as, his walk is almost a crawl.
• To move slowly by thrusting or drawing the body along the ground, as a worm; creep.
• To move or walk feebly, slowly, laboriously, or timorously.
• To advance slowly and secretly or cunningly; hence, to insinuate one's self; gain favor by obsequious conduct.
• To have a sensation like that produced by a worm crawling upon the body: as, the flesh crawls.
• noun A pen or inclosure of stakes and hurdles on the sea-coast, for containing fish or turtles.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• intransitive verb To move slowly by drawing the body along the ground, as a worm; to move slowly on hands and knees; to creep.
• intransitive verb to move or advance in a feeble, slow, or timorous manner.
• intransitive verb To advance slowly and furtively; to insinuate one's self; to advance or gain influence by servile or obsequious conduct.
• intransitive verb To have a sensation as of insect creeping over the body. See Creep, v. i., 7.
• noun A pen or inclosure of stakes and hurdles on the seacoast, for holding fish.
• noun The act or motion of crawling; slow motion, as of a creeping animal.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun A pen or enclosure of stakes and hurdles for holding fish.
• verb intransitive To creep; to move slowly on hands and knees, or by dragging the body along the ground.
• verb intransitive To move forward slowly, with frequent stops.
• verb intransitive To act in a servile manner.
• verb intransitive, with "with" See crawl with.
• verb intransitive To feel a swarming sensation.
• verb intransitive To swim using the crawl stroke.
• verb transitive To move over an area on hands and knees.
• verb intransitive To visit while becoming inebriated.
• verb transitive To visit files or web sites in order to index them for searching.
• noun The act of moving slowly on hands and knees etc, or with frequent stops
• noun A rapid swimming stroke with alternate overarm strokes and a fluttering kick
• noun television, film A piece of horizontally scrolling text overlaid on the main image.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• verb swim by doing the crawl
• noun a very slow movement
• verb move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground
• noun a swimming stroke; arms are moved alternately overhead accompanied by a flutter kick
• verb show submission or fear
• noun a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body
• verb be full of
• verb feel as if crawling with insects