creeper vs wilderness

creeper

noun
  • A person or a thing that crawls or creeps. 

  • A one-piece garment for infants designed to facilitate access to the wearer's diaper. 

  • A small four-hooked grapnel used to recover objects dropped onto the sea bed. 

  • Any device for causing material to move steadily from one part of a machine to another, such as an apron in a carding machine, or an inner spiral in a grain screen. 

  • Any plant (as ivy or periwinkle) that grows by creeping, especially a climbing plant of the genus Parthenocissus. 

  • The lowest gear of a tractor or truck. 

  • A small low iron, or dog, between the andirons. 

  • A person who creeps people out; a creepy person. 

  • A metal plate with spikes, designed to be worn with shoes to prevent slipping. 

  • An instrument with iron hooks or claws for dredging up items from a well or other water. 

  • A low-profile wheeled platform whereupon an auto mechanic may lie on their back and gain better access to the underbody of a vehicle. 

  • A kind of shoe, usually with a suede upper and a thick crepe sole, associated with various 20th-century subcultures. 

  • A spur-like device strapped to the boot to facilitate climbing. 

  • A ball that travels low, near ground level. 

  • A device which allows a small child to safely roam around a room from a seated or standing position. 

  • A treecreeper. 

wilderness

noun
  • A place or situation that is bewildering and in which one may get lost. 

  • Chiefly followed by of: a bewildering flock or throng; a large, often jumbled, collection of things. 

  • An ornamental part of a garden or park cultivated with trees and often a maze to evoke a natural wilderness. 

  • Uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state inhabited by wild animals and with vegetation growing wild; (countable) a tract of such land; a waste or wild. 

  • A place other than land (for example, the air or sea) that is uncared for, and therefore devoted to disorder or wildness. 

  • Often preceded by in the: a situation of disfavour or lack of recognition; (specifically, politics) of a politician, political party, etc.: a situation of being out of office. 

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