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crabwise:

to move sideways or carefully or indirectly

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