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crawler

/ˈkɹɔːlə/KRAW-lur
/ˈkɹɔlɚ/KRAW-lur

Meaningone that paws with the hands

Common meaning: a person or thing that crawls

Journey through time

  1. Old Norse (Icelandic)krafla‘to paw, scrabble’source
  2. Early English spellingcrallsource
  3. Englishcrawl‘to move on hands and knees’
  4. Englishformed in English from crawlcrawler‘a person or thing that crawls’ · today

Sources & notes

Inferred source: no dictionary we use has an entry for this exact word. Its history is worked out from closely related, listed words in the same family, and we are trusting that link, so bear that in mind. Inferred meaning: one that paws with the hands. It can be inferred from any of: crawl.

Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.

Pronunciation

  • UK IPA: converted from the US form by rule (unchecked). Respelling: generated.
  • No UK recording; the speaker uses your device’s en-GB voice.
  • US IPA: CMUdict (BSD-2), converted to IPA by rule. Respelling: generated.
  • No US recording; the speaker uses your device’s en-US voice.

Origin: Formed in English from crawl + -er (inferred: this exact word is not listed in our dictionaries).

Source words

  • krafla Old Norse (Icelandic) · source word “to paw with the hands”

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