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crawl space

crawl space noun: a level, narrow opening underneath the bottom of a building or storey used to give access to pipes, cables and other utilities.

Noun

crawl space (plural crawl spaces)

  1. A level, narrow opening underneath the bottom of a building or storey used to give access to pipes, cables and other utilities.
    • When he couldn’t take another step he hid under a lonesome gray house and squatted in the fetid water of the crawl space.2019, Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys, Fleet, page 147
    1. A severely height-limited basement or semi-basement of a building, of less than half a storey high.

crawl space meaning in Tamil

crawl space in Tamil

பணியிடவெளி

Forms of crawl space

pluralcrawl spaces
alternative formcrawlspace

Questions about crawl space

What does crawl space mean?
Crawl space means a level, narrow opening underneath the bottom of a building or storey used to give access to pipes, cables and other utilities.
What is crawl space in Tamil?
Crawl space in Tamil is பணியிடவெளி. See Crawl space meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is crawl space?
Crawl space is a noun.
What is the plural of crawl space?
The plural of crawl space is crawl spaces.

Words near crawl space in the dictionary

  1. crawl before one walks
  2. crawl control
  3. crawl into a hole
  4. crawl out of the woodwork
  5. crawl over each other
  6. crawl space
  7. crawl spaces
  8. crawl up someone's ass
  9. crawl with
  10. crawl-a-bottom
  11. crawl-a-bottoms

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Adapted from Wiktionary: crawl space (page history and authors); crawl space (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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