goatwise

Adverb

goatwise (not comparable)

1. In an goatlike manner.
   • Suddenly Pronto shied violently, tried to bolt up the cliff, scrambling goatwise for twenty feet to stand shivering and snorting. Sandy's balance was automatic, the muscles of his knees clamped for grip, he gave the pinto its head, trusting to it to establish footing.1922, J. Allan Dunn, “Chapter II: Casey”, in Rimrock Trail, A.L. Burt, by arrangement with the Bobbs-Merrill Company, page 15
   • "Special edition!" Ginny shrilled. His tiptoes covered, with all the sensations of his young and eager flesh, further miles of streets, streets where the inmates of houses, behind their drawn blinds, would answer, with a querulous reluctance, the adamant cries with which he called them out. "Come...1929, Evelyn Scott, The Wave, J. Cape and H. Smith, page 284
2. With regard to goats.
   • It was assumed, when Johns Hopkins showed the way, that every university student was or should be engaged in original research and thus a candidate for the doctor's degree. This not unnatural assumption had the unfortunate result of dividing all graduate students, sheepwise and goatwise, into those...1911 February 23, The Nation, volume 92, number 2382, page 186