Index of English words, starting with "cr"

(1) - Creeper (n.) Crockets. See Crocket.
(2) - Creeper (n.) Any device for causing material to move steadily from one part of a machine to another, as an apron in a carding machine, or an inner spiral in a grain screen.
(3) - Creeper (n.) An instrument with iron hooks or claws for dragging at the bottom of a well, or any other body of water, and bringing up what may lie there.
(4) - Creeper (n.) A small, low iron, or dog, between the andirons.
(5) - Creeper (n.) A spurlike device strapped to the boot, which enables one to climb a tree or pole; -- called often telegraph creepers.
(6) - Creeper (n.) A kind of patten mounted on short pieces of iron instead of rings; also, a fixture with iron points worn on a shoe to prevent one from slipping.
(7) - Creeper (n.) A small bird of the genus Certhia, allied to the wrens. The brown or common European creeper is C. familiaris, a variety of which (var. Americana) inhabits America; -- called also tree creeper and creeptree. The American black and white creeper is Mniotilta varia.
(8) - Creeper (n.) A plant that clings by rootlets, or by tendrils, to the ground, or to trees, etc.; as, the Virginia creeper (Ampelopsis quinquefolia).
(9) - Creeper (n.) One who, or that which, creeps; any creeping thing.

(1) - Creepiness (n.) An uneasy sensation as of insects creeping on the skin.

(1) - Creeping (a.) Growing along, and clinging to, the ground, or to a wall, etc., by means of rootlets or tendrils.
(2) - Creeping (a.) Crawling, or moving close to the ground.
(3) - Creeping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Creep

(1) - Creepy (a.) Crawly; having or producing a sensation like that caused by insects creeping on the skin.