crawl space

noun — 2 senses

crawl space

noun

1

Architecture, Business, Construction, Manufacturing A level, narrow opening underneath the bottom of a building or storey used to give access to pipes, cables and other utilities.

When he couldn’t take another step he hid under a lonesome gray house and squatted in the fetid water of the crawl space.2019, Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys, Fleet, page 147:

2

Architecture, Business, Construction, Manufacturing A severely height-limited basement or semi-basement of a building, of less than half a storey high.

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