Crawler \Crawl"er\ (kr?l"?r), n.
One who, or that which, crawls; a creeper; a reptile.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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]
WordNet (r) 2.0
crawler
robot
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)
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