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Crabwise

adj, adv

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    In the manner of a crab; sideways. not-comparable
  2. 2
    Incidental. figuratively, not-comparable

    "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."

Adjective
  1. 1
    (of movement) at an angle wordnet
Adverb
  1. 1
    In the manner of a crab; sideways. not-comparable

Etymology

Etymology 1

From crab + -wise.

Etymology 2

From crab + -wise.

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