crabwise
advEtymology From crab + -wise.
1
In the manner of a crab; sideways.
crabwise
adjEtymology From crab + -wise.
1
In the manner of a crab; sideways.
2
Figuratively Incidental.
- 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.2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 788: