crab motion
[English]
Moving backwards; This typically refers to a figure or theme in retrograde. Although crabs actually move sideways, this is a type of movement that makes it easy to change directions.
See Also
[English] retrograde[English] retrograde canon
[German] Krebsgang
[Latin] cancrizans
[Latin] canon cancrizans
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Last Updated: 2016-05-22 15:36:25