crawler

[ kraw-ler ]

/ ˈkrɔ lər /

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noun

a person or thing that crawls.

Digital Technology. web crawler.

Also called crawler tractor. any of various large, heavy vehicles or machines that are propelled on endless belts or tracks, especially as used in construction.

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Often crawlers. a garment with long pants, short sleeves or suspender straps, and sometimes feet for a baby who does not yet walk.

Australian Slang. sycophant.

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Origin of crawler

1640–50; 1925–30 for def. 4; crawl¹ + -er¹

Words nearby crawler

crawdaddy, crawfish, Crawford, Crawfordsville, crawl, crawler, crawler lane, crawler track, Crawley, crawling, crawling peg

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How to use crawler in a sentence

The best part of a sitemap is that you can specify what pages, posts, or media files to be indexed by search engines crawlers.
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You can use XPath notations and your favorite crawler to quickly obtain the Q&As in a straightforward and digestible format.
How to use XPath expressions to enhance your SEO and content strategy|Brad McCourt|January 11, 2021|Search Engine Watch
Such descriptions are also used by search engine crawlers for indexing, and this helps in rankings.
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I like to run my crawler across our sites every month to make sure all of the internal links are pointing to valid landing pages without any 301 redirects or 404ing broken pages.
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To do that, you’ll need a site crawler, like SEO PowerSuite’s Website Auditor.
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“Prevent any temper tantrums by keeping baby in this Happy Happy Happy Crawler,” the site says of this product.
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Instead, it says, it will “reboot” the franchise, focusing on a teenage wall crawler.
Can Spider-Man Survive Without Tobey?|Kim Masters|January 12, 2010|DAILY BEAST
The party in the boat sent their small craft flying toward the spot where the crawler had sunk.
Star Born|Andre Norton
And my young Claude being a cripple for life, 'is father kicking 'im when he was a crawler in one of 'is drunken fits.
Workhouse Characters|Margaret Wynne Nevinson
Please, sir, Nancy Toomey has been calling you a carroty-headed crawler.
The Book of the Bush|George Dunderdale
Nancy Toomey has been calling me a carroty-headed crawler, has she?
The Book of the Bush|George Dunderdale
When dinner time came there was served some of the turtle soup from the big crawler that had pulled on Flossies dress.
The Bobbsey Twins on the Deep Blue Sea|Laura Lee Hope

British Dictionary definitions for crawler

crawler

/ (ˈkrɔːlə) /

noun

slang a servile flatterer

a person or animal that crawls

US an informal name for earthworm

a computer program that is capable of performing recursive searches on the Internet

(plural) a baby's overalls; rompers

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