[f. as prec. + -ING1.] The action of the verb CRAWL.
1768–74. Tucker, Lt. Nat. (1852), I. 522. Attentive to the crawlings of an emmet.
1855. Kingsley, Glaucus (1878), 16. The crawling of a glacier.
1879. Carpenter, Ment. Phys., I. ii. § 53. The crawling of the Maggot or Caterpillar.
attrib. 1794. Phil. Trans., LXXXIV. 406. It can be entered only in a crawling posture.
