Related Clues:

• Shook off
• Having a border
• Advanced with care
• Steered clear of
• Evaded
• Barely beaten
• Beat barely
• Managed to avoid
• Won by a nose
• Trimmed the lawn
• Two- -- sword
• Used a weed whacker, perhaps
• Moved laterally
• Advanced furtively
• Trimmed along the walk, e.g.