As verbs the difference between crawl and slithers
is that
crawl is to creep; to move slowly on hands and knees, or by dragging the body along the ground while
slithers is (
slither).
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.
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. […]’}}
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To move forward slowly, with frequent stops.
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To act in a servile manner.
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* Shakespeare
- hath crawled into the favour of the king
See crawl with.
To feel a ing sensation.
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To swim using the crawl stroke.
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To move over an area on hands and knees.
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To visit while becoming inebriated.
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To visit files or web sites in order to index them for searching.
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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.
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slithers English
Verb
(head)
(slither)
slither English
Verb
( en verb)
To move about smoothly and from side to side.
To slide
* 2003 , J. Flash, An American Savage
- I bent down and with both hands I scooped up as much of this pissshit as I could. The green and brown clump felt like Jello as it dripped down all over my clothes. It was slithering through inbetween my fingers.
Derived terms
* slitherlink
Anagrams
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