crabwise

• The enemy spearmen were only thirty yards away now and coming on crabwise, crouched behind their big shields until only their feet and the narrowest slit under the helmet brim showed,the men behind them held their shields overhead. —  Map.html
• Lead single Black Hearted Love is a crabwise take on Harvey's most commercial output, skirting the blues-rock idiom she so boldly shied away from on 2007's White Chalk, but here the thrillingly abrasive guitar work is classic Parish. —  musicOMH MT | staff | musicOMH
• The clapped-out old bus careering crabwise on a chassis distorted by many collisions roared down the unmade road to the little Arab village amid clouds of dust and diesel fumes, and screeched to a standstill just before the village square. —  open source theology - Comments
• The lip of this crevice made a dizzy path that one might follow by moving crabwise, his face to the cliff, with only its roughnesses to cling to with his fingers. —  Wilderness Ways
• "It was as much your fault as his, young woman!" snarled the biped, getting crabwise out of my reach. —  The Eye of Zeitoon

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