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Skid   /skɪd/   Listen
noun
Skid  n.  (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.) Large fenders hung over a vessel's side to protect it in handling a cargo.
(b)
One of a pair of timbers or bars, usually arranged so as to form an inclined plane, as form a wagon to a door, along which anything is moved by sliding or rolling.
(c)
One of a pair of horizontal rails or timbers for supporting anything, as a boat, a barrel, etc.
3.
(Aeronautics) A runner (one or two) under some flying machines, used for landing.
4.
A low movable platform for supporting heavy items to be transported, typically of two layers, and having a space between the layers into which the fork of a fork lift can be inserted; it is used to conveniently transport heavy objects by means of a fork lift; a skid without wheels is the same as a pallet.
5.
pl. Declining fortunes; a movement toward defeat or downfall; used mostly in the phrase on the skids and hit the skids.
6.
Act of skidding; called also side slip.


verb
Skid  v. t.  (past & past part. skidded; pres. part. skidding)  
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.
3.
(Forestry) To haul (logs) to a skid and load on a skidway.


Skid  v. i.  
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.





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"Skid" Quotes from Famous Books



... on each side of the skid-beams leading from the quarter-deck to the forecastle, and peculiar to deep-waisted ships, for the convenience of walking expeditiously fore and aft; it is fenced on the outside by iron stanchions and ropes, ...
— The Sailor's Word-Book • William Henry Smyth
... wet street— The tire with a thousand claws will hold you. Stop as quickly as you will— Those thousand claws grip the road like a vise. Turn as sharply as you will— Those thousand claws take a steel-prong grip on the road to prevent a side skid. You're safe—safer than anything else will make you— Safe as you would be on a perfectly dry street. And those thousand claws are ...
— Something Else Again • Franklin P. Adams
... "I thought I felt you tipping when you first came to the layout," he said, waving them around. I nodded confirmation. "But it was smooth work, and I could hardly be sure. Most of these maverick TK's strong-arm the dice, and they skid across the layout with their spots up. You're way ahead of that—you don't touch them till the final few tumbles. And then, you were losing, and I couldn't see that the table was ...
— Vigorish • Gordon Randall Garrett
... platform; block; rest, resting place; groundwork, substratum, riprap, sustentation, subvention; floor &c (basement) 211. supporter; aid &c 707; prop, stand, anvil, fulciment^; cue rest, jigger; monkey; stay, shore, skid, rib, truss, bandage; sleeper; stirrup, stilts, shoe, sole, heel, splint, lap, bar, rod, boom, sprit^, outrigger; ratlings^. staff, stick, crutch, alpenstock, baton, staddle^; bourdon^, cowlstaff^, lathi^, mahlstick^. ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget
... some fancy driving the other day," he greeted his anxious-faced daughter. "Didn't you know you was sliding a wheel every time you threw on the brake? Wonder to me is you didn't skid off a grade somewhere!" He hitched himself into a new and uncomfortable pose and set the wrench on a nut, screwing his well-fed face into an agonized grimace while he put his full strength into the turn. "If I could find a man that I'd trust my life with on these roads, I'd have me a ...
— The Thunder Bird • B. M. Bower


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