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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.