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Crawler [perhaps after the Rev. Edmund A. Crawley, a leading Methodist minister of the time] Maritimes, Hist. 
n. a Methodist.
- 1965 Their insistence on observation of the Lord's Day excited the bitter hostility of merchants. By the vulgar their adherents were [c1814] derisively termed "Crawlers."
- 1965 Their insistence on observation of the Lord's Day excited the bitter hostility of merchants. By the vulgar their adherents were [c1814] derisively termed "Crawlers."