Obs. Also 6 crall, 7 craul. To entangle.

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1548.  Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. Tim. iii. (R.). Beyng cralled in the deuilles snares.

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a. 1633.  Austin, Medit. (1635), 282. When we have crauled, and ravel’d our Soules into Knots, at last … wee fall, like a Weaver, to Cutting. Ibid., 284. The unprofitable Web of my Life, which in the Weaving I have so strained … Knit, and crawled.

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