(n): a person who uses flattery
(n): a person who crawls or creeps along the ground
(n): a human being
(n): terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil; often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet; used as bait by anglers
(n): hermaphroditic terrestrial and aquatic annelids having bristles borne singly along the length of the body
The old crawler, having scribbled through his billet-doux, restrained the luxuriance of a straggling hair or two with his tweezers; then bathed his eyes in the nostrum of some perfumer to give them a brilliancy which their natural gum would have eclipsed.
- Lesage, The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane, tr. Smollett, bk 4 ch. 7