(a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body; "a crawl was all that the injured man could manage"; "the traffic moved at a creep")
(move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground; "The crocodile was crawling along the riverbed")
(feel as if crawling with insects; "My skin crawled
(be full of; "The old cheese was crawling with maggots")
(show submission or fear)
(swim by doing the crawl; "European children learn the breast stroke; they often don't know how to crawl")
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