skid | A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

Skid
·vt To check with a skid, as wagon wheels. II. Skid ·add. ·v Act of skidding; — called also side s...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
skid
A piece of light timber from ten to twenty feet in length, upon which heavier timber is rolled or sl...

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
Skid road
·add. ·- A road having partly sunken transverse logs (called skids) at intervals of about five feet....

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
skid-beams
Raised stanchions in men-of-war over the main-deck, parallel to the quarter-deck and forecastle beam...

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