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crawl spaces

crawl spaces is the plural of crawl space.

Meaning of crawl space

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.

Questions about crawl spaces

What is crawl spaces the plural of?
Crawl spaces is the plural of crawl space.

Words near crawl spaces in the dictionary

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

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