sidewind

American  

[sahyd-wahynd] / ˈsaɪdˌwaɪnd /

verb (used without object)

sidewound, sidewinded, sidewinding

1. to move like a sidewinder.

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Etymology

Origin of sidewind

First recorded in 1925–30; back formation from sidewinder

Example Sentences

Snakes can sidewind over sand, leap between trees, and undulate underwater.

From National Geographic • Jan. 11, 2021

Snakes slither, sidewind and have even been known to launch themselves from one tree to another.

From Scientific American • Jan. 11, 2021

One mighty squadron, with a sidewind sped, Through narrow lanes his cumber'd fire does haste, By powerful charms of gold and silver led The Lombard bankers and the Change to waste.

From Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer by Baldwin, James

I scorn, like a British sailor, to do that by a sidewind, Farmer, that I ought not to do openly; but there are two sides to a blanket.

From Rattlin the Reefer by Marryat, Frederick

The main difficulty arose from the tendency again to smuggle in statements favourable to infallibility, and paving the way for its definition by a sidewind.

From Letters From Rome on the Council by D?llinger, Johann Joseph Ignaz von