crabwise

To his astonishment the stranger's mobile lips twisted in a snarl and he edged crabwise toward the bushes bordering the glen.

And so on, and all the time it is not wanting to go either to Thirlmere or to Penrith, but is sidling crabwise to Keswick.

He was well up into the cleft, moving crabwise, unwilling to turn his back on the Throg.

Able Jake, with the controlling influence of the jets cut, had yawed slightly and was now traveling crabwise.

Mr. Wayne stiffened and wheeled; Mr. Briggs sidled hastily toward the doorway, crabwise; the poet choked back the word, Phup!