different between crawler vs trawler

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??l?(r)

Etymology 1

From crawl (“to move slowly, by dragging the body along the ground”) +? -er.

Noun

crawler (plural crawlers)

1. A child who is able to creep using its hands and knees but is not able to walk.
2. (sports) A crawl swimmer.
3. A tractor crawler, a motorized vehicle that uses caterpillar tracks instead of wheels.
4. A software bot that autonomously follows connected paths such as webpage links.
5. A mobile stage in the development of stationary hemipteran insects such as scale insects—generally the first instar.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From crawl (“to act in a servile manner”) +? -er.

From the Australian convict period (1788-1850); a prisoner who was purposely and extensively abused by an overseer (also a convict) and thereby driven to escape but who, finding it impossible to survive in the Australian bush, surrenders to this overseer, who would then have his penal term reduced. The particular crawler was picked for his weak personality and might escape and return a number of times increasing his own penal term each time. According to James Tucker, some convict overseers had their sentences extensively reduced using this odious practice. Source-James Tucker's 1845 novel Ralph Rashleigh.

Noun

crawler (plural crawlers)

1. (Australia, obsolete) A person who is abused, physically or verbally, and returns to the abuser a supplicant.
2. (Britain, Australia, slang) A sycophant.

Translations

Anagrams

• recrawl

French

Etymology

crawl +? -er

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?o.le/

Verb

crawler

1. (transitive, intransitive) to swim using the crawl stroke
2. (transitive, intransitive, Internet) to spider

Conjugation

Further reading

• “crawler” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

trawl +? -er

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??l?(r)

Noun

trawler (plural trawlers)

1. A fishing boat that uses a trawl net or dragnet to catch fish.
2. A fisherman who uses a trawl net.

Descendants

• ? Faroese: trolari

Translations

See also

• troller

Czech

Etymology

From English trawler

Noun

trawler m

1. trawler (a fishing boat that uses a trawl net or dragnet to catch fish)

French

Verb

trawler

1. (Louisiana, Cajun French) to trawl

Conjugation