crabwise:

to move sideways or carefully or indirectly

crabwise:

to move sideways or carefully or indirectly

(Adjective, Adverb)

Example Sentences:

Ramayana:  Although Ravana’s spies tried to move crabwise out of Rama’s camp, they were soon detected by Vibhishana and arrested by the monkeys.

Mahabharata:  While following the Pandavas in the Varnavarta forest, Purochana moved crabwise to hide behind nearby trees whenever he felt that the Pandavas were about to look back.

Bhagavad-gita:  The Gita approaches the problem of evil crabwise — it places the many things we consider distressful within the context of material existence which is itself considered distressful.