Zig

One knits a rectangular strip, about 3 wide, and attaches it to a bib thing in zig-zag fashion, overlapping itself. ❋ Jean (2009)

The Crash of 1929 and the Depression marked the next zag, followed by the longterm zig sparked by the New Deal and the host of social legislation that went with it. ❋ Mark Olmsted (2010)

The figures of these men and women straggled past the flower-bed with a curiously irregular movement not unlike that of the white and blue butterflies who crossed the turf in zig-zag flights from bed to bed. ❋ Unknown (1921)

The road down the mountain wound constantly, and we travelled in short, zig-zag lines, in order to avoid the extremely abrupt declivities; but occasionally, we were compelled to descend in places that made us pause before making the attempt: they were, some of them, almost perpendicular, and our horses would frequently slide several yards, before they could recover. ❋ Unknown (1839)

This plant is called the zig-zag golden-rod because its stem often turns first one way and then the other, as if it hadn't made up its mind which way to grow. ❋ Frederick John Lazell (1905)

When sailing the down wind leg of a race you don't sail directly down wind, you actually tack slightly that is to say zig zag as this allows you travel faster than the wind. ❋ Mark Frauenfelder (2010)

_artichoke_, but better known as a zig-zag cracker; "if they do not understand English, perhaps they may comprehend pyrotechnics." ❋ Paul Adrien (N/A)

‘E was kind of zig-zagging across the pavement, and I bumps into ’im accidental-like. ❋ Unknown (2008)

It's not a big deal, but you do this kind of zig zagging often enough -- and McCain has done it a LOT -- and you sort of undercut your "Experience" and "Steadiness at the Helm" arguments. ❋ Steve Hulett (2008)

Then we kind of zig-zagged around till g.w. ... that's when we ran off the cliff. ❋ Unknown (2007)

But it's pretty obvious in our lounge that none of the walls are at right angles, and it's open plan with the bathroom jutting into one end, so the bit that goes from there across the kitchen is even kind of zig-zaggy. ❋ StyleyGeek (2007)

Inscribed or pecked into sandstone, the images depict birds, fish, giraffes, gazelles, crocodiles, and other animals, human figures dancing and hunting, and a number of geometric motifs such as zig-zag lines and triangles. ❋ Unknown (2006)

’E was kind of zig-zagging across the pavement, and I bumps into ’im accidental-like. ❋ Unknown (1949)

It was a savage kind of zig-zag which always led higher and higher, while as they neared the top, the snow grew deeper and the walls on either side closer, while these were not only perpendicular but in many cases actually overhanging. ❋ George Manville Fenn (1870)

The same kind of zig zag that the pieces would set up like. ❋ Al Yellon (2010)

Because a low correlation bespeaks gold's value as a risk diversifier-the "zig" an account needs when all else ❋ Hard Assets Investor (2010)