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crawl | mount |

As a verb crawl

is to creep; to move slowly on hands and knees, or by dragging the body along the ground.

As a noun crawl

is the act of moving slowly on hands and knees etc, or with frequent stops or crawl can be a pen or enclosure of stakes and hurdles for holding fish.

As a proper noun mount is

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crawl

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) crawlen, (m), ‘to scratch, scrape’. More at (l).

Verb

(en verb)
  • To creep; to move slowly on hands and knees, or by dragging the body along the ground.
  • * Grew
  • A worm finds what it searches after only by feeling, as it crawls from one thing to another.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
  • , chapter=7 citation , passage=‘Children crawled over each other like little grey worms in the gutters,’ he said. ‘The only red things about them were their buttocks and they were raw. Their faces looked as if snails had slimed on them and their mothers were like great sick beasts whose byres had never been cleared. […]’}}
  • To move forward slowly, with frequent stops.
  • To act in a servile manner.
  • * Shakespeare
  • hath crawled into the favour of the king
  • See crawl with.
  • To feel a ing sensation.
  • To swim using the crawl stroke.
  • To move over an area on hands and knees.
  • To visit while becoming inebriated.
  • To visit files or web sites in order to index them for searching.
  • Derived terms
    * crawler
    Descendants
    * German:

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of moving slowly on hands and knees etc, or with frequent stops
  • A rapid swimming stroke with alternate overarm strokes and a fluttering kick
  • (television, film) A piece of horizontally scrolling text overlaid on the main image.
  • * 22 March 2012 , Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games [http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hunger-games,71293/]
  • The opening crawl (and a stirring propaganda movie) informs us that “The Hunger Games” are an annual event in Panem, a North American nation divided into 12 different districts, each in service to the Capitol, a wealthy metropolis that owes its creature comforts to an oppressive dictatorship.
    Derived terms
    * front crawl * pub crawl * urban crawl

    Etymology 2

    Compare kraal.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A pen or enclosure of stakes and hurdles for holding fish.
  • ----

    mount

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl), from (etyl) munt, from (etyl) , from a root seen also in (English eminent).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A mountain.
  • (label) A bulwark for offence or defence; a mound.
  • * Bible, Jer. vi. 6
  • Hew ye down trees, and cast a mount against Jerusalem.
  • (label) A bank; a fund.
  • Usage notes
    * Used chiefly in poetry, but also in the names of specific mountains, e.g. "Mount Everest".
    Derived terms
    * (abbreviation)

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) mounten, from (etyl) mounter, from (etyl) monter, from ; compare French monter.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An animal, usually a horse, used to ride on, unlike a draught horse
  • The rider climbed onto his mount .
  • A mounting; an object on which another object is mounted.
  • The post is the mount on which the mailbox is installed.
  • (label) A rider in a cavalry unit or division.
  • The General said he has 2,000 mounts .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To move upwards.
  • #(lb) To get upon; to ascend; to climb.
  • #:
  • #*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
  • #*:Or shall we mount again the Rural Throne, / And rule the Country Kingdoms, once our own?
  • #(lb) To place oneself on (a horse, a bicycle, etc.); to bestride.
  • #:
  • #(lb) To cause to mount; to put on horseback; to furnish with animals for riding.
  • #*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
  • #*:to mount the Trojan troop
  • # To cause (something) to rise or ascend; to drive up''; to raise; to elevate; to lift ''up .
  • #*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
  • #*:What power is it which mounts my love so high?
  • # To rise on high; to go up; to be upraised or uplifted; to tower aloft; to ascend; often with up .
  • #*Bible, (w) li. 53
  • #*:Though Babylon should mount up to heaven.
  • #* (1743-1809)
  • #*:The fire of trees and houses mounts on high.
  • (lb) To attach (an object) to a support.
  • :
  • *
  • *:But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶.
  • *
  • *:“My Continental prominence is improving,” I commented dryly. ¶ Von Lindowe cut at a furze bush with his silver-mounted rattan. ¶ “Quite so,” he said as dryly, his hand at his mustache. “I may say if your intentions were known your life would not be worth a curse.”
  • # To attach (a drive or device) to the file system in order to make it available to the operating system.
  • #:
  • To increase in quantity or intensity.
  • :
  • (lb) To attain in value; to amount (to).
  • *(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
  • *:Bring then these blessings to a strict account, / Make fair deductions, see to what they mount .
  • (lb) To get on top of (an animal) to mate.
  • # To have sexual intercourse with someone.
  • (lb) To begin (a military assault, etc.); to launch.
  • :
  • *{{quote-news, year=2012, date=May 5, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC Sport
  • , title= Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool , passage=For Liverpool, their season will now be regarded as a relative disappointment after failure to add the FA Cup to the Carling Cup and not mounting a challenge to reach the Champions League places.}}
  • To deploy (cannon) for use in or around it.
  • :
  • (lb) To prepare and arrange the scenery, furniture, etc. for use in (a play or production).
  • Synonyms
    * See also
    Antonyms
    * dismount * demount * unmount