Word Study
creeper
CIDE DICTIONARY
creeper, n.
- One who, or that which, creeps; any creeping thing. [1913 Webster]"Standing waters are most unwholesome, . . . full of mites, creepers; slimy, muddy, unclean." [1913 Webster]
- A plant that clings by rootlets, or by tendrils, to the ground, or to trees, etc.; as, the Virginia creeper (Ampelopsis quinquefolia). [1913 Webster]
- A small bird of the genus
Certhia , allied to the wrens. The brown or common European creeper isCerthia familiaris , a variety of which (var.Americana ) inhabits America; -- called alsotree creeper andcreeptree . The American black and white creeper isMniotilta varia . [1913 Webster] - A kind of patten mounted on short pieces of iron instead of rings; also, a fixture with iron points worn on a shoe to prevent one from slipping. [1913 Webster]
- A spurlike device strapped to the boot, which enables one to climb a tree or pole; -- called often
telegraph creepers . [1913 Webster] - A small, low iron, or dog, between the andirons. [1913 Webster]
- An instrument with iron hooks or claws for dragging at the bottom of a well, or any other body of water, and bringing up what may lie there. [1913 Webster]
- Any device for causing material to move steadily from one part of a machine to another, as an apron in a carding machine, or an inner spiral in a grain screen. [1913 Webster]
- Crockets. See Crocket. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
creeper, n.
1 Bot. any climbing or creeping plant.
2 any bird that climbs, esp. a treecreeper.
3 sl. a soft-soled shoe.
1 Bot. any climbing or creeping plant.
2 any bird that climbs, esp. a treecreeper.
3 sl. a soft-soled shoe.
THESAURUS
creeper
algae, autophyte, bean, bracken, brown algae, climber, conferva, confervoid, diatom, fern, fruits and vegetables, fucus, fungus, grapevine, green algae, gulfweed, herb, heterophyte, ivy, kelp, legume, lentil, liana, lichen, liverwort, mold, moss, mushroom, parasite, parasitic plant, pea, perthophyte, phytoplankton, planktonic algae, plant families, puffball, pulse, red algae, rockweed, rust, saprophyte, sargasso, sargassum, sea lentil, sea moss, sea wrack, seaweed, smut, succulent, toadstool, vetch, vine, wort, wrackROGET THESAURUS
creeper
Vegetable
N vegetable, vegetable kingdom, flora, verdure, plant, tree, shrub, bush, creeper, herb, herbage, grass, annual, perennial, biennial, triennial, exotic, timber, forest, wood, woodlands, timberland, hurst, frith, holt, weald, park, chase, greenwood, brake, grove, copse, coppice, bocage, tope, clump of trees, thicket, spinet, spinney, underwood, brushwood, scrub, boscage, bosk, ceja, chaparal, motte, arboretum, bush, jungle, prairie, heath, heather, fern, bracken, furze, gorse, whin, grass, turf, pasture, pasturage, turbary, sedge, rush, weed, fungus, mushroom, toadstool, lichen, moss, conferva, mold, growth, alfalfa, alfilaria, banyan, blow, blowth, floret, petiole, pin grass, timothy, yam, yew, zinnia, foliage, branch, bough, ramage, stem, tigella, spray, leaf, flower, blossom, bine, flowering plant, timber tree, fruit tree, pulse, legume, vegetable, vegetal, vegetive, vegitous, herbaceous, herbal, botanic, sylvan, silvan, arborary, arboreous, arborescent, arborical, woody, grassy, verdant, verdurous, floral, mossy, lignous, ligneous, wooden, leguminous, vosky, cespitose, turf-like, turfy, endogenous, exogenous, green-robed senators of mighty woods, this is the forest primeval.For further exploring for "creeper" in Webster Dictionary Online
