crawl space

See also: crawlspace

English

A attic crawl space
A crawl space under a barn

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Noun

crawl space (plural crawl spaces)

  1. (construction, architecture) A level, narrow opening underneath the bottom of a building or storey used to give access to pipes, cables and other utilities.
    • 2019, Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys, Fleet, page 147:
      When he couldn’t take another step he hid under a lonesome gray house and squatted in the fetid water of the crawl space.
    1. A severely height-limited basement or semi-basement of a building, of less than half a storey high.

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