Meaning

• 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.

• A very slow pace.

  "My computer has slowed down to a crawl since I installed that software package."

• A piece of horizontally or vertically scrolling text overlaid on the main image.

Meaning

• To creep; to move slowly on hands and knees, or by dragging the body along the ground.

  "Clutching my wounded side, I crawled back to the trench."

• To move forward slowly, with frequent stops.

  "The rush-hour traffic crawled around the bypass."

• To act in a servile manner.

  "Don't come crawling to me with your useless apologies!"

• (with "with") See crawl with.

• To feel a swarming sensation.

  "The horrible sight made my skin crawl."

• To swim using the crawl stroke.

  "I think I'll crawl the next hundred metres."

• To move over an area on hands and knees.

  "The baby crawled the entire second floor."

• To visit while becoming inebriated.

  "They crawled the downtown bars."

• To visit files or web sites in order to index them for searching.

  "Yahoo Search has updated its Slurp Crawler to crawl web sites faster and more efficiently."