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crawl

/kɹɔl/ sustantivo C2

En español: crol, estilo crol, paso de tortuga

  1. The act of moving slowly on hands and knees, etc.
  2. The act of sequentially visiting a series of similar establishments (i.e., a bar crawl).
  3. A rapid swimming stroke with alternate overarm strokes and a fluttering kick.
  4. A very slow pace. (figuratively) · My computer has slowed down to a crawl since I installed that software package.
  5. A piece of horizontally or vertically scrolling text overlaid on the main image.

Plural crawls

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Now, with my little gun, I crawl
A Child's Garden of Verses, p. 17 · C1
He would put it through this ventilator at the hour that he thought best, with the certainty that it would crawl down the rope and land on the bed.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, p. 70 · B2
Evidently, as they had dragged the stone up they had thrust the chunks of wood into the chink, until at last, when the opening was large enough to crawl through, they would hold it open by a billet placed lengthwise, which might very well become indented at the lower end, since the whole weight of the stone would press it down on to the edge of this other slab.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, p. 24 · B2
As you look at their grey stone huts against the scarred hillsides you leave your own age behind you, and if you were to see a skin-clad, hairy man crawl out from the low door fitting a flint-tipped arrow on to the string of his bow, you would feel that his presence there was more natural than your own.
The Hound of the Baskervilles, p. 92 · C1

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