crawling

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of crawl

noun

1. The motion of something that crawls.

   “Miss Brass […] devoted herself with uncommon ardour to the study of the law; not wasting her speculations upon its eagle flights, which are rare, but tracing it attentively through all the slippery and eel-like crawlings in which it commonly pursues its way.”