crawl space
Noun
Meaning
low space beneath a floor of a building; gives workers access to wiring or plumbing
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Both his parents had perished in the quake, his mother lay dead meters away, but Elysee had survived, huddled under a metal table — a treacherous crawl space bent and buckled by the weight of concrete above it.
He usually shouts reminders of this fact from under our crawl space, as he’s making the ever-important initial meeting with the leader of the possum community that summers in our air-conditioning vents.
Investigators said Azotea gave them a statement — based on the promised immunity for his girlfriend, Kristin Jones — that he killed the two, cut up their bodies, then burned some parts and buried some parts in the crawl space under his residence.
Much of the fencing had deteriorated, leaving the crawl space open to animals, large and small.
There were two feet of water in the crawl space.
We found several old medicine bottles under the back of the house in an area that we had to dig out to create a larger crawl space.