crawl space.

A shallow enclosed space beneath a floor or roof, too low for a person to stand upright.

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Words that belong together

• damp crawl space
• enter the crawl space
• crawl space beneath the house

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He crawled beneath the house to reach a pipe in the crawl space.

A sweet, damp smell escaped when she opened the crawl-space hatch.

There was barely room to turn around inside the roof's crawl space.

Usage notes

Primary category: architecture. Usually provided for access to services; do not use for an ordinary full-height basement. Count compound noun: crawl spaces; spelling crawlspace, plural crawlspaces.