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crawl

/kɹɔl/ noun C2
  1. A pen or enclosure of stakes and hurdles for holding fish.

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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