Skid










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Skid \Skid\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Skidded; p. pr. & vb. n.
Skidding.]

1. To protect or support with a skid or skids; also, to cause
to move on skids.
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2. To check with a skid, as wagon wheels. --Dickens.
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3. (Forestry) To haul (logs) to a skid and load on a skidway.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Skid \Skid\ (sk[i^]d), n. [Icel. sk[imac][eth] 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.
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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. --Totten.
(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.
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3. (Aeronautics) A runner (one or two) under some flying
machines, used for landing.
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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.
[PJC]


5. pl. Declining fortunes; a movement toward defeat or
downfall; -- used mostly in the phrase

on the skids and

hit the skids.
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6. [From the v.] Act of skidding; -- called also side slip.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Skid \Skid\, v. i.

1. To slide without rotating; -- said of a wheel held from
turning while the vehicle moves onward.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]


2. To fail to grip the roadway; specif., to slip sideways on
the road; to side-slip; -- said esp. of a cycle or
automobile.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
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skid
n 1: one of a pair of planks used to make a track for rolling or
sliding objects

2: a restraint provided when the brake linings are moved
hydraulically against the brake drum to retard the wheel's
rotation [syn: brake shoe, shoe, skid]

3: an unexpected slide [syn: skid, slip, sideslip]
v 1: slide without control; "the car skidded in the curve on the
wet road"

2: elevate onto skids

3: apply a brake or skid to

4: move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled
manner; "the wheels skidded against the sidewalk" [syn:
skid, slip, slue, slew, slide]
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skid [skid]
Gestell; Hemmschuh; Rahmen; Schlitten; Talfahrt

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skid [skid]
slippen; uitglijden
een schuiver maken; gieren; slippen

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skid

Gestell n
skid

Hemmschuh m
skid

Ladegestell n
skid

Rahmen m
skid

Schleudern n
skid

Schlitten m; Kufe f
skid

Talfahrt f
skid

schleudern; rutschen
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66 Moby Thesaurus words for "skid":
avalanche, bank, coast, crab, dip, drop, edge, fall, feather,
fishtail, flit, flow, fly, glide, glissade, glissando, go crabwise,
go sideways, ice-skate, landslide, landslip, lateral, lateralize,
loop, make leeway, nose-dive, plow, plunge, porpoise, pull out,
pull up, push down, roll, roller-skate, sail, sheer, sideslip,
sidestep, sidle, skate, skateboard, skew, ski, skim, sled, sleigh,
slidder, slide, slide down, slip, slippage, slither, slue, slur,
snowslide, snowslip, spin, spiral, stunt, subsidence, sweep,
toboggan, tumble, undulate, veer, yaw



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