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Scramble On All Fours Crossword Clue

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noun

• a very slow movement

• a swimming stroke; arms are moved alternately overhead accompanied by a flutter kick

• a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body

verb

• move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground

• feel as if crawling with insects

• be full of

• show submission or fear

• swim by doing the crawl

37%7 To scramble or crawl on all fours
noun

• A method of fishing using a line with several hooks fastened to it along with a lead weight so that the hooks sit on the bottom.

verb

• To search with one's hands and fingers; to attempt to grasp something.

• To search in a similar way using an implement.

• To touch (someone) with one's hands or fingers, sometimes in a sexual way.

• To pick (something or someone) up hastily, roughly or clumsily.

• To attempt to grab; to grasp at (something).

• To pull, lift or dig (something) (out of the ground) by searching with one's hands and fingers.

• To lift (something) out in a similar way using an implement.

• (now Southeastern US) To catch fish by reaching into the water with one's hand.

• To fish on the grabble.

• To utter inarticulate sounds, often quickly and loudly; to say (something) quickly, idly or foolishly.

• To lie prostrate; to sprawl on the ground.

24%10 They walked on all fours
noun

• having the back covered with thick bony plates; thought to have walked with a sprawling gait resembling a lizard's

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