Meaning of acrawl | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Crawling.
   not-comparable
2. Full of or covered (with something that crawls or moves as if crawling).
   not-comparable

Examples

“1849, George Cupples, The Green Hand, Part 5, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 66, No. 408, October, 1849, […] an’ be blowed if I knowed but I was buried in a churchyard, with the blasted worms all acrawl about me.”

“1865, William Michael Rossetti (translator), The Comedy of Dante Alighieri, Part I—The Hell, London: Macmillan, Canto 29, p. 208, This [spirit] on the belly, on the shoulders that, / Of one another lay⟳, and this acrawl / Transferred himself along the mournful path.”

“Rottenness / Peoples the world with creatures of its own⟳, / And Rome’s acrawl with them.”

“His eyes were acrawl with the secrets of life. They were just squirming and wriggling there.”

“Why, I’ll just bet⟳ you anything that place⟳ is acrawl with black widows.”

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