crawling
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /ˈkɹɔːlɪŋ/
- (cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /ˈkɹɑlɪŋ/
- Rhymes: -ɔːlɪŋ
Noun
crawling (plural crawlings)
- The motion of something that crawls.
- 1840 April – 1841 November, Charles Dickens, “(please specify the chapter number or name)”, in The Old Curiosity Shop. A Tale. […], London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1841, →OCLC:
- 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.
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