— sidlingly , adv.
/suyd"l/ , v. , sidled, sidling , n.
v.i.
1. to move sideways or obliquely.
2. to edge along furtively.
n.
3. a sidling movement.
[ 1690-1700; back formation from SIDELING (earlier sp. sidling misconstrued as prp. of a verb ending in -LE) ]