n
The act of crawling with the feet instead of the knees, creating an arched or squatted body posture.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To crawl about; crawl all over.
v
To crawl with one's belly touching the ground
n
(idiomatic) A higher-valued result or target to reach.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To climb (something) with some difficulty, or in a haphazard fashion.
v
To crawl by straddling a log, especially in crossing a creek, or similar, such as a construction beam.
n
The act of one who cranes.
v
(intransitive) To creep; to move slowly on hands and knees, or by dragging the body along the ground.
n
A child who is able to creep using its hands and knees but is not able to walk.
v
(intransitive) To move on crutches.
v
(chiefly of a vehicle) To unintentionally rub or scrape on a surface.
v
(obsolete, intransitive) To become fledged; to fledge.
n
(slang, extreme sports) Snow or an ocean wave.
v
(intransitive) To move swiftly.
n
(dialect) A jerked underhand throw.
n
One who drives quickly or without subtlety, one who often engages in and/or is fond of slamming and flooring the accelerator often.
v
(Cumbria, Northumbria) To leap.
v
(intransitive, chiefly Australia and New Zealand, UK, informal) To crash; to have an accident while controlling a vehicle.
v
To move a small distance; to go from one small thing to another.
v
To move a small distance; to go from one small thing to another.
n
(UK, colloquial) A headlong fall or tumble.
n
A concave bend at the top or cap of a railing, wall, or coping; a romp.
v
To climb in an awkward manner.
v
(transitive, Northumbria, Yorkshire) To hurl or throw.
v
(nautical, slang, obsolete) To skulk about, not getting work done.
n
A long, thin piece of something.
v
(forestry) To mark a sapling to be spared during a cut down of trees.
v
(intransitive, obsolete) To walk with a heavy or clumsy gait; to plod.
v
(intransitive) Of a bird of prey: to swoop down on its prey.
v
(intransitive) To stand with the ends staggered; said of the spokes of a wagon wheel where they join the hub.
v
To streak, to color in a swash.
adj
crushed by being walked on.
v
(intransitive) To roll or revolve; to roll along.
v
(intransitive) to walk through water or something that impedes progress.
n
The recreational activity of walking or wading across mudflats at low tide.
v
(Scotland, Northern England) to turn, turn over (especially of mown grass).
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