"crabwise" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From crab + -wise.",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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        "In the manner of a crab; sideways."
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          "sideways",
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          "ref": "2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 788",
          "text": "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.",
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        "Incidental."
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        "(figuratively) Incidental."
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          "sideways"
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  "word": "crabwise"
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          "sideways",
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        "Incidental."
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        "(figuratively) Incidental."
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