Definition of crawl space
: 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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Authorities say the body was found in a trash bag in a plastic container filled with cat litter, in a crawl space under steps leading to the second floor.
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Lillie called for backup, before approaching the men trying to detach copper and other metal materials in a crawl space.
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During the search, police found two suspects hiding in a basement crawl space.
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Lillie said one man came out, but the other remained in the crawl space.
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In other interviews by the fire investigator, two homeless men describe storing bike parts and other belongings in a crawl space where the old gas pipe was sticking out of the ground.
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Firefighters were called at 10:30 a.m. Monday to a home on the 300 block of West Webster after the renter who lived there used a smoke bomb in his crawl space to get rid of the skunks that lived there.
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To keep pipes from freezing, make sure the pipes closest to exterior walls, and in crawl spaces, are wrapped in insulation or heating tape.
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Mountain Brook police are investigating after two people were found in a crawl space of a vacant home.
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First Known Use of crawl space
1946
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Definition of crawl space for English Language Learners
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: a space under the first floor or roof of a building that is not high enough to stand up in
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