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Webster's Unabridged Dictionary: Library in Itself

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Skid

Skid (skid)
n.(sk&ibreve]d)
Skid
[Icel. sk***imacr]ð a billet of wood. See Shide.] [Written also skeed.]
  1. A shoe or clog, as of iron, attached to a chain, and placed under the wheel of a wagon to prevent its turning when descending a steep hill; a drag; a skidpan; also, by extension, a hook attached to a chain, and used for the same purpose.
  2. A piece of timber used as a support, or to receive pressure.
    Specifically: (a) pl. (Naut.)

Skid

Skid (skid)
v. t.
Skid
  1. To protect or support with a skid or skids] also, to cause to move on skids.
  2. To check with a skid, as wagon wheels.
    Dickens.

Skid

Skid (skid)
n.(?)
Skid
  1. A runner (one or two) under some flying machines, used for landing.
  2. Act of skidding; -- called also side slip.

Skid

Skid (skid)
v. i.
Skid
  1. To slide without rotating; -- said of a wheel held from turning while the vehicle moves onward.
  2. To fail to grip the roadway; specif., to slip sideways on the road; to side-slip; -- said esp. of a cycle or automobile.

Skid

Skid (skid)
v. t.
Skid
  1. To haul (logs) to a skid and load on a skidway.












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