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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. One that crawls, especially an early form of certain insect larvae.
  2. n. A vehicle, such as a bulldozer, that moves on continuous belts of metal plates.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. One who or that which crawls; a creeper; a reptile.
  2. n. A dobson or hellgrammite; the larva of a neuropterous insect of the family Sialidæ, as of Corydalus cornutus.
  3. n. Also called clipper.
  4. n. A person or thing that moves slowly; particularly, a cab that moves along a street very slowly on the outlook for a fare.

Wiktionary

  1. n. Australia, obsolete A person who is abused, physically or verbally, and returns to the abuser a supplicant.
  2. n. Australia, slang A sycophant.
  3. n. A child who is able to creep using his hands and knees but is not able to walk.
  4. n. sports A crawl swimmer.
  5. n. A tractor crawler, a motorized vehicle that uses caterpillar tracks instead of wheels.
  6. n. A software bot that autonomously follows connected paths such as webpage links.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. One who, or that which, crawls; a creeper; a reptile.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage
  2. n. a person who crawls or creeps along the ground
  3. n. terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil; often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet; used as bait by anglers

Etymologies

  1. From crawl (“move slowly, by dragging the body along the ground”) +‎ -er (“suffix forming agent noun”). (Wiktionary)

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  1. creeper
  1. reptile

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  1. dobson
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  • yarb 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 Sep 18, 2008

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