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crawing

crawing is the present participle and gerund of craw.

Meaning of craw

Verb

craw (third-person singular simple present craws, present participle crawing, simple past and past participle crawed)

  1. (archaic) To caw, crow.
    • The night was now pitmirk; the wind soughed amid the head-stones and railings of the gentry, (for we must all die,) and the black corbies in the steeple-holes cackled and crawed in a fearsome manner.1828, David Macbeth Moir, The Life of Mansie Wauch

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Questions about crawing

What is crawing the present participle and gerund of?
Crawing is the present participle and gerund of craw.

Words near crawing in the dictionary

  1. Crawfordville
  2. Crawforth
  3. crawful
  4. crawfuls
  5. Crawfurd
  6. crawing
  7. crawk
  8. crawked
  9. crawking
  10. crawks
  11. crawl

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Adapted from Wiktionary: crawing (page history and authors); craw (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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