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Craw"ford (kr&add;"f&etilde;rd), n.
A Crawford peach; a well-known freestone peach, with yellow
flesh, first raised by Mr. William Crawford, of New
Jersey.

Crawl (kr&add;l), v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Crawled (kr&add;ld);
p. pr. & vb. n. Crawling.] [Dan.
kravle, or Icel. krafla, to paw, scrabble with the
hands; akin to Sw. kräla to crawl; cf. LG.
krabbeln, D. krabbelen to scratch.]
1. To move slowly by drawing the body along
the ground, as a worm; to move slowly on hands and knees; to
creep.

A worm finds what it searches after only by
feeling, as it crawls from one thing to another.

Grew.

2. Hence, to move or advance in a feeble,
slow, or timorous manner.

He was hardly able to crawl about the
room.

Arbuthnot.

The meanest thing that crawl'd beneath my
eyes.


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