A piece of light timber from ten to twenty feet in length, upon which heavier timber is rolled or slid from place to place.
·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
to skid a wheel, to prevent its turning in going down a steep hill, to drag it. Kent. ...
A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
·add. ·- A road having partly sunken transverse logs (called skids) at intervals of about five feet....
Raised stanchions in men-of-war over the main-deck, parallel to the quarter-deck and forecastle beam...
The Sailor's Word-Book