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sidewind

vb. (context intransitive English) To move sideways, especially in a series of S-shaped curves

Usage examples of "sidewind".

Loose amphistaffs tried to sidewind for the safety of the moat, but only a few made it, and the rest were flung hard into the wall.

So now Norma's trunk, like Longarm, stood behind a pile of lumber in the shade of a dockside loading shed as he waited for the killer in the Carlsbad hat to sidewind within hailing range with his own narrowed eyes darting about as if he wasn't dead certain he'd guessed right.

A wounded but still living snake uncoiled from the mass and sidewinded painfully into the grass.

He let the stem droop as the centipede began another sidewinding charge, and shoved the blade through his belt.

Watson watched them till they had that skiff tied up, they was sidewinding to walk on past him when he cleared his throat and said, Good morning, boys.

As if in answer, one of the tornado funnels came sidewinding closer, the lowest tip of its whirling cone stabbing downward as if seeking a hard surface to destroy.

He found he was near the upper limits of easy sidewinding when one of his boot heels dislodged a fist-sized chunk of scree that, fortunately, fetched up in a clump of yucca instead of rattle-clanking all the way down the slope.