creeping — (of a plant) having a stem that grows horizontally along the ground and throws out roots at intervals
worming — Zoology. any of numerous long, slender, soft-bodied, legless, bilaterally symmetrical invertebrates, including the flatworms, roundworms, acanthocephalans, nemerteans, gordiaceans, and annelids.
on all fours — all four limbs or extremities; the four legs or feet of an animal or both arms and both legs or both hands and both feet of a person: The cat rolled off the ledge but landed on all fours.
inching — a unit of length, 1/12 (0.0833) foot, equivalent to 2.54 centimeters.
