crabwise

English

Etymology

From crab +‎ -wise.

Adjective

crabwise (not comparable)

1. In the manner of a crab; sideways.
2. (figuratively) Incidental.
   • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 788:

     Quite apart from their crabwise and often reluctant embrace of religious toleration for a wide variety of religious dissidence, both countries achieved a wider distribution of prosperity than any other part of seventeenth-century Europe.

Adverb

crabwise (not comparable)

1. In the manner of a crab; sideways.