1. Verb
To move slowly by drawing the body along the ground, as a worm; to move slowly on hands and knees; to creep.
2. Verb
to move or advance in a feeble, slow, or timorous manner.
3. Verb
To advance slowly and furtively; to insinuate one's self; to advance or gain influence by servile or obsequious conduct.
4. Verb
To have a sensation as of insect creeping over the body; as, the flesh crawls. See Creep, v. i., 7.
5. Noun
The act or motion of crawling; slow motion, as of a creeping animal.
6. Noun
A pen or inclosure of stakes and hurdles on the seacoast, for holding fish.
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