Skid

·vt To check with a skid, as wagon wheels.

II. Skid ·add. ·v Act of skidding;

— called also side slip.

III. Skid ·noun A piece of timber used as a support, or to receive pressure.

IV. Skid ·add. ·vt To haul (logs) to a skid and load on a skidway.

V. Skid ·noun Large fenders hung over a vessel's side to protect it in handling a cargo.

VI. Skid ·vt To protect or support with a skid or skids; also, to cause to move on skids.

VII. Skid ·add. ·noun A runner (one or two) under some flying machines, used for landing.

VIII. Skid ·noun One of a pair of horizontal rails or timbers for supporting anything, as a boat, a barrel, ·etc.

IX. Skid ·add. ·vi To slide without rotating;

— said of a wheel held from turning while the vehicle moves onward.

X. Skid ·add. ·vi To fail to grip the roadway; specif., to slip sideways on the road; to side-slip;

— said ·esp. of a cycle or automobile.

XI. Skid ·noun 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.

XII. Skid ·noun 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.