Crawler

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Crawler \Crawl"er\ (kr?l"?r), n.
     One who, or that which, crawls; a creeper; a reptile.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  crawler
       n 1: a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a
            personal advantage [syn: {sycophant}, {toady}, {lackey}]
       2: a person who crawls or creeps along the ground [syn: {creeper}]
       3: terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil;
          often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet; used as
          bait by anglers [syn: {earthworm}, {angleworm}, {fishworm},
           {fishing worm}, {wiggler}, {nightwalker}, {nightcrawler},
           {dew worm}, {red worm}]

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  crawler
       
          {robot}