Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One that crawls, especially an early form of certain insect larvae.
- noun A vehicle, such as a bulldozer, that moves on continuous belts of metal plates.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which crawls; a creeper; a reptile.
- noun A dobson or hellgrammite; the larva of a neuropterous insect of the family Sialidæ, as of Corydalus cornutus.
- noun Also called
clipper . - noun A person or thing that moves slowly; particularly, a cab that moves along a street very slowly on the outlook for a fare.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who, or that which, crawls; a creeper; a reptile.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Australia, obsolete A person who is
abused ,physically orverbally , and returns to the abuser asupplicant . - noun Australia, slang A
sycophant . - noun A
child who is able tocreep using his hands and knees but is not able to walk. - noun sports A
crawl swimmer. - noun A
tractor crawler, a motorized vehicle that usescaterpillar tracks instead ofwheels . - noun A software
bot that autonomously follows connected paths such as webpage links.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage
- noun a person who crawls or creeps along the ground
- noun terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil; often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet; used as bait by anglers
Etymologies
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Examples
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The behavior of the everest crawler is regrettable.
MSNBot, Begone! 2005
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The smart crawler is to be free software under the GNU General Public License (GPL).
Boing Boing: October 24, 2004 - October 30, 2004 Archives 2004
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At 10: 36 p.m. PDT, Google's "crawler" -- the technology that finds Web pages -- discovered a new link on the Web site of Tribune's South Florida Sun-Sentinel newspaper in a section called "Popular Stories: Business."
UAL Story Blame 2008
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In another conciliatory gesture announced Wednesday, Google will use a separate "crawler" - which is a piece of indexing technology - to compile content for its news section.
unknown title 2009
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In another conciliatory gesture announced Wednesday, Google will use a separate "crawler" - which is a piece of indexing technology - to compile content for its news section.
unknown title 2009
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In another conciliatory gesture announced Wednesday, Google will use a separate "crawler" -- which is a piece of indexing technology -- to compile content for its news section.
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In another conciliatory gesture announced Wednesday, Google will use a separate "crawler" -- which is a piece of indexing technology -- to compile content for its news section.
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Plus whoever has the rights to Spider-Man would never allow him in the movie without a small fortune, so the web-crawler is out too.)
Did Jon Favreau Just Reveal The Avengers Line-Up? « FirstShowing.net 2008
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Mechanics on the battlefield are built around the idea of a mobile base, called a crawler, which differs depending on which of the three classes you choose.
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The crawler is your all-in-one building, serving as your sole production structure and research center.
yarb commented on the word crawler
The old crawler, having scribbled through his billet-doux, restrained the luxuriance of a straggling hair or two with his tweezers; then bathed his eyes in the nostrum of some perfumer to give them a brilliancy which their natural gum would have eclipsed.
- Lesage, The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane, tr. Smollett, bk 4 ch. 7
September 18, 2008