becrawl

English

Etymology

From be- (“about, all over”) +‎ crawl.

Pronunciation

Rhymes: -ɔːl

Verb

becrawl (third-person singular simple present becrawls, present participle becrawling, simple past and past participle becrawled)

(transitive, intransitive) To crawl about; crawl all over.
- 1925, Albert Payson Terhune, Najib - Page 84:
  "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.
- 1949, Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Punch - Volume 216 - Page 683:
  Nor becrawl on me, bedam, Nor my nose besettle on, Howso in thy sight it shone.