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noun

crawling

KRAW-lihng
noun
1
The action or motion of moving on hands and knees, or moving very slowly.
"The crawling of the injured hiker took hours to cover just a mile."

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In plain EnglishThe act of crawling, as a noun — moving slowly along the ground.

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crawlings plural

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