crawl space
noun
: a shallow unfinished space beneath the first floor or under the roof of a building especially for access to plumbing or wiring
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Officers eventually found him in a crawl space of the home by using drones, took him into custody and booked him in the Canyon County Jail, police said.
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Samuel O’Neal, Idaho Statesman, 18 June 2024
There’s a scene at the beginning of that film where Robert Mitchum goes into a very old house and reaches through some cobwebs under a crawl space and finds a box with some of his childhood things, including a small toy gun and some books.
—Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 14 Feb. 2024
Water supply pipes in unheated interior areas including basements, crawl spaces, attics, garages and cabinets.
—Natalie Neysa Alund, The Enquirer, 10 Jan. 2024
Read Next California Roughhousing bear cubs slip into narrow crawl space.
—Brooke Baitinger, Sacramento Bee, 30 May 2024
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Samuel O’Neal, Idaho Statesman, 18 June 2024
There’s a scene at the beginning of that film where Robert Mitchum goes into a very old house and reaches through some cobwebs under a crawl space and finds a box with some of his childhood things, including a small toy gun and some books.
—Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 14 Feb. 2024
Water supply pipes in unheated interior areas including basements, crawl spaces, attics, garages and cabinets.
—Natalie Neysa Alund, The Enquirer, 10 Jan. 2024
Read Next California Roughhousing bear cubs slip into narrow crawl space.
—Brooke Baitinger, Sacramento Bee, 30 May 2024
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“Crawl space.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/crawl%20space. Accessed 4 Jul. 2024.
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