crawler
a person or thing that crawls.
Digital Technology. web crawler.
Also called crawler tractor. any of various large, heavy vehicles or machines that are propelled on endless belts or tracks, especially as used in construction.
Often crawlers. a garment with long pants, short sleeves or suspender straps, and sometimes feet for a baby who does not yet walk.
Australian Slang. sycophant.
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The best part of a sitemap is that you can specify what pages, posts, or media files to be indexed by search engines crawlers.
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“Prevent any temper tantrums by keeping baby in this Happy Happy Happy crawler,” the site says of this product.
Get Your ‘Duck Dynasty’ Bobblehead in Time for Christmas | Michael Daly | December 23, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTInstead, it says, it will “reboot” the franchise, focusing on a teenage wall crawler.
The party in the boat sent their small craft flying toward the spot where the crawler had sunk.
Star Born | Andre NortonAnd my young Claude being a cripple for life, 'is father kicking 'im when he was a crawler in one of 'is drunken fits.
Workhouse Characters | Margaret Wynne NevinsonPlease, sir, Nancy Toomey has been calling you a carroty-headed crawler.
The Book of the Bush | George DunderdaleNancy Toomey has been calling me a carroty-headed crawler, has she?
The Book of the Bush | George DunderdaleWhen dinner time came there was served some of the turtle soup from the big crawler that had pulled on Flossies dress.
The Bobbsey Twins on the Deep Blue Sea | Laura Lee Hope
British Dictionary definitions for crawler
/ (ˈkrɔːlə) /
slang a servile flatterer
a person or animal that crawls
US an informal name for earthworm
a computer program that is capable of performing recursive searches on the Internet
(plural) a baby's overalls; rompers
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