Frombe-(“about, all over”) +crawl.
becrawl (third-person singular simple presentbecrawls,present participlebecrawling,simple past and past participlebecrawled)
- (ambitransitive) Tocrawl about; crawl all over.
1925, Albert Payson Terhune,Najib - Page 84:"Oh, if I could have been there!" muttered Kirby. "But it wouldn't have done." "At the last, Howaji," finished Najib, "he was what box fighters call 'downward and outward.' I dragged him to the camp's edge and left him tobecrawl himself away.
1949, Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor,Punch - Volume 216 - Page 683:Norbecrawl on me, bedam, Nor my nose besettle on, Howso in thy sight it shone.
