becrawl
verbEtymology From be- (“about, all over”) + crawl.
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Ambitransitive To crawl about; crawl all over.
- "Oh, if I could have been there!" muttered Kirby. "But it wouldn't have done." "At the last, Howaji," finished Najib, "he was what box fighters call 'downward and outward.' I dragged him to the camp's edge and left him to becrawl himself away.1925, Albert Payson Terhune, Najib - Page 84:
- Nor becrawl on me, bedam, Nor my nose besettle on, Howso in thy sight it shone.1949, Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Punch - Volume 216 - Page 683: