acrawl

adj 2

Definitions

adj

1

Crawling.

1849, George Cupples, The Green Hand, Part 5, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 66, No. 408, October, 1849, […] an’ be blowed if I knowed but I was buried in a churchyard, with the blasted worms all acrawl about me.

1865, William Michael Rossetti (translator), The Comedy of Dante Alighieri, Part I—The Hell, London: Macmillan, Canto 29, p. 208, This [spirit] on the belly, on the shoulders that, / Of one another lay, and this acrawl / Transferred himself along the mournful path.

2

Full of or covered (with something that crawls or moves as if crawling).

Rottenness / Peoples the world with creatures of its own, / And Rome’s acrawl with them.

His eyes were acrawl with the secrets of life. They were just squirming and wriggling there.

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