CREEPER Synonyms

• a vine or climbing plant that readily grows up a support or over other plants

• someone seeking social prominence by obsequious behavior

• someone who ascends on foot

• someone who climbs as a sport; especially someone who climbs mountains

• an iron spike attached to the shoe to prevent slipping on ice when walking or climbing

• a baby bed with sides and rockers

• where something originated or was nurtured in its early existence

• birth of a person

• a trough that can be rocked back and forth; used by gold miners to shake auriferous earth in water in order to separate the gold

• hold gently and carefully

• bring up from infancy

• hold or place in or as if in a cradle

• cut grain with a cradle scythe

• wash in a cradle

• run with the stick

• any plant (as ivy or periwinkle) that grows by creeping

• a person who crawls or creeps along the ground

• any of various small insectivorous birds of the Northern Hemisphere that climb up a tree trunk supporting themselves on stiff tail feathers and their feet

• any of various small insectivorous birds of the Northern Hemisphere that climb up a tree trunk supporting themselves on stiff tail feathers and their feet

• any of numerous South American and Central American birds with a curved bill and stiffened tail feathers that climb and feed like woodpeckers