crawlway
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7.9
- noun
- /ˈkrɔːlweɪ/
:
pasadizo
- After a long journey, they finally emerged from the dark crawlway into the open air.
- access crawlway
- service crawlway
Examples
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We found an old crawlway behind the bookshelf that led to the basement.
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And on to the opening of a service crawlway that led down to the building's processing engines, buried deep in the earth.
Fiction book (2000) -
" The maintenance crawlway."
Fiction book (2002) -
As she set up the equipment in the access crawlway, near where she'd discovered the sealed crack, she remembered Yeats wrote that the people of Faery could not even play catch without mortal help.
Fiction book (2002) -
They moved through it like ghosts, down corridors closed or cleared by friends on work details, through crawlways and up access ladders that appeared on no construction blueprint.
Fiction book (1998) -
The technician squeezed through the crawlway to reach the electrical wires above.
Synonyms
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5.7
A low narrow space under the main floor of a building that people use to reach pipes and wires
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6.6
A narrow unfinished space under a building floor used to reach pipes, wires, or vents
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7.0
A small narrow space where a person can hide
A small opening you look through to watch without being seen
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Morphology
Etymology
Crawlway is made of crawl ('to move on hands and knees') and way ('path'), so it means a path you must crawl through. That's why a crawlway is a very narrow passage or tunnel just big enough for a person to crawl through.