crawler

[ kraw-ler ]

noun

1. a person or thing that crawls.
2. Digital Technology. web crawler ( def ).
3. 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.
4. hellgrammite.
5. Often crawlers. a garment with long pants, short sleeves or suspender straps, and sometimes feet for a baby who does not yet walk.
6. Australian Slang. sycophant.

crawler

/ ˈkrɔːlə /

noun

1. slang.
   a servile flatterer
2. a person or animal that crawls
3. See earthworm
   an informal name for earthworm
4. a computer program that is capable of performing recursive searches on the Internet
5. plural a baby's overalls; rompers

Word History and Origins

Origin of crawler¹

1640–50; 1925–30 crawler fordef 4; crawl ¹ + -er ¹

Example Sentences

The best part of a sitemap is that you can specify what pages, posts, or media files to be indexed by search engines crawlers.

From Search Engine Watch

You can use XPath notations and your favorite crawler to quickly obtain the Q&As in a straightforward and digestible format.

From Search Engine Watch

Such descriptions are also used by search engine crawlers for indexing, and this helps in rankings.

From Search Engine Watch

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.

From Search Engine Watch

To do that, you’ll need a site crawler, like SEO PowerSuite’s Website Auditor.

From Search Engine Land

“Prevent any temper tantrums by keeping baby in this Happy Happy Happy Crawler,” the site says of this product.

From The Daily Beast

Instead, it says, it will “reboot” the franchise, focusing on a teenage wall crawler.

From The Daily Beast

The party in the boat sent their small craft flying toward the spot where the crawler had sunk.

From Project Gutenberg

And my young Claude being a cripple for life, 'is father kicking 'im when he was a crawler in one of 'is drunken fits.

From Project Gutenberg

Please, sir, Nancy Toomey has been calling you a carroty-headed crawler.

From Project Gutenberg

Nancy Toomey has been calling me a carroty-headed crawler, has she?

From Project Gutenberg

When dinner time came there was served some of the turtle soup from the big crawler that had pulled on Flossies dress.

From Project Gutenberg

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