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Webster 1828 Edition

ppr.

Creeping; moving slowly along the ground, or other substance; moving or walking slowly, weakly or timorously; insinuating.

crawling

crawling ‎(plural crawlings)

The motion of something that crawls.
- Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop
  Miss Brass […] devoted herself with uncommon ardour to the study of the law; not wasting her speculations upon its eagle flights, which are rare, but tracing it attentively through all the slippery and eel-like crawlings in which it commonly pursues its way.