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Creeper :: Creeper (n.) 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..

Creeper :: Creeper (n.) 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..

Creeper :: Creeper (n.) One who, or that which, creeps; any creeping thing..

Trumpet-shaped :: Trumpet-shaped (a.) Tubular with one end dilated, as the flower of the trumpet creeper..

Synaloepha :: Synallaxine (a.) Having the outer and middle toes partially united; -- said of certain birds related to the creepers.

Creeper :: Creeper (n.) 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..

Radicant :: Radicant (a.) Taking root on, or above, the ground; rooting from the stem, as the trumpet creeper and the ivy..

Vine :: Vine (n.) Hence, a climbing or trailing plant; the long, slender stem of any plant that trails on the ground, or climbs by winding round a fixed object, or by seizing anything with its tendrils, or claspers; a creeper; as, the hop vine; the bean vine; the vines of melons, squashes, pumpkins, and other cucurbitaceous plants..

Creeper :: Creeper (n.) A spurlike device strapped to the boot, which enables one to climb a tree or pole; -- called often telegraph creepers..

Curvirostres :: Curvirostres (n. pl.) A group of passerine birds, including the creepers and nuthatches..

Woodbine :: Woodbine (v. t.) The Virginia creeper. See Virginia creeper, under Virginia..

Bignonia :: Bignonia (n.) A large genus of American, mostly tropical, climbing shrubs, having compound leaves and showy somewhat tubular flowers. B. capreolata is the cross vine of the Southern United States. The trumpet creeper was formerly considered to be of this genus..

Creep :: Creep (v. i.) To drag in deep water with creepers, as for recovering a submarine cable..

Crawler :: Crawler (n.) One who, or that which, crawls; a creeper; a reptile..

Creeper :: Creeper (n.) A small, low iron, or dog, between the andirons..

Creeper :: Creeper (n.) Crockets. See Crocket.

Five-leaved :: Five-leaved (a.) Having five leaflets, as the Virginia creeper..

Clamper :: Clamper (n.) An instrument of iron, with sharp prongs, attached to a boot or shoe to enable the wearer to walk securely upon ice; a creeper..

White-eye :: White-eye (n.) Any one of several species of small Old World singing of the genus Zosterops, as Zosterops palpebrosus of India, and Z. c/rulescens of Australia. The eyes are encircled by a ring of white feathers, whence the name. Called also bush creeper, and white-eyed tit..

Creeper :: Creeper (n.) A plant that clings by rootlets, or by tendrils, to the ground, or to trees, etc.; as, the Virginia creeper (Ampelopsis quinquefolia)..

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