noun crockets. ·see crocket.
2. creeper ·noun a small, low iron, or dog, between the andirons.
3. creeper ·noun one who, or that which, creeps; any creeping thing.
4. creeper ·noun a spurlike device strapped to the boot, which enables one to climb a tree or pole;
called often telegraph creepers.
5. creeper ·noun a plant that clings by rootlets, or by tendrils, to the ground, or to trees, ·etc.; as, the virginia creeper (ampelopsis quinquefolia).
6. creeper ·noun an instrument with iron hooks or claws for dragging at the bottom of a well, or any other body of water, and bringing up what may lie there.
7. creeper ·noun a kind of patten mounted on short pieces of iron instead of rings; also, a fixture with iron points worn on a shoe to prevent one from slipping.
8. creeper ·noun any device for causing material to move steadily from one part of a machine to another, as an apron in a carding machine, or an inner spiral in a grain screen.
9. creeper ·noun a small bird of the genus certhia, allied to the wrens. the brown or common european creeper is c. familiaris, a variety of which (var. americana) inhabits america;
called also tree creeper and creeptree. the american black and white creeper is mniotilta varia.