Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Crawl \Crawl\ (kr[add]l), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Crawled}
   (kr[add]ld); p. pr. & vb. n. {Crawling}.] [Dan. kravle, or
   Icel. krafla, to paw, scrabble with the hands; akin to Sw.
   kr[aum]la to crawl; cf. LG. krabbeln, D. krabbelen to
   scratch.]
   1. To move slowly by drawing the body along the ground, as a
      worm; to move slowly on hands and knees; to creep.

            A worm finds what it searches after only by feeling,
            as it crawls from one thing to another. --Grew.

   2. Hence, to move or advance in a feeble, slow, or timorous
      manner.

            He was hardly able to crawl about the room.
                                                  --Arbuthnot.

            The meanest thing that crawl'd beneath my eyes.
                                                  --Byron.

Source : WordNet®

crawling
     n : a slow creeping mode of locomotion (on hands and knees or
         dragging the body); "a crawl was all that the injured man
         could manage"; "the traffic moved at a creep" [syn: {crawl},
          {creep}, {creeping}]