Related Clues:

• Moved gingerly
• Ducked
• Did yard work
• Beat by a hair
• Avoided
• Cutting, as a remark
• Moved carefully
• Sidled
• Neatened the lawn, in a way
• Moved sideways
• Slipped through one's hands
• Barely defeated
• Beat (out)
• Lost one's tail?
• Beat by one, say