noun. The action of sliding or slipping over a surface, often sideways.

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noun. A plank, log, or timber, usually one of a pair, used as a support or as a track for sliding or rolling heavy objects.

noun. A pallet for loading or handling goods, especially one having solid sideboards and no bottom.

noun. One of several logs or timbers forming a skid road.

noun. A wooden framework attached to the side of a ship to prevent damage, as when unloading.

noun. A shoe or drag applying pressure to a wheel to brake a vehicle.

noun. A runner in the landing gear of certain aircraft.

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noun. A period of sharp decline or repeated losses.

noun. A path to ruin or failure.

intransitive verb. To slide, especially roughly or heavily.

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intransitive verb. To slide sideways while moving because of loss of traction.

intransitive verb. To slide from forward momentum, especially during an attempt to stop: synonym: slide.

intransitive verb. To move sideways in a turn because of insufficient banking. Used of an airplane.

intransitive verb. To fall or decline sharply.

intransitive verb. To brake (a wheel) with a skid.

intransitive verb. To haul on a skid or skids.

A variant of scud.

To place or move on a skid or skids.

To support by means of skids.

To check with a skid, as wheels in going down-hill.

To slide along without revolving, as a wheel: said also of any object mounted on wheels so moving.

noun. Nautical:

noun. A framework of planks or timber fitted to the outside of a ship abreast of the hatches, to prevent injury to the side while cargo is hoisted in or out.

noun. A strut or post to sustain a beam or deck, or to throw the weight of a heavy object upon a part of the structure able to bear the burden

noun. One of a pair of timbers in the waist to support the larger boats when aboard.

noun. A log forming a track for a heavy moving object; a timber forming an inclined plane in loading or unloading heavy articles from trucks, etc.

noun. One of a number of timbers resting on blocks, on which a structure, such as a boat, is built.

noun. A metal or timber support for a cannon.

noun. One of a pair of parallel timbers for supporting a barrel, a row of casks, or the like.

noun. The brake of a crane.

noun. A shoe or drag used for preventing the wheels of a wagon or carriage from revolving when descending a hill; hence, a hindrance or obstruction. Also called skid-pan.

noun. In lumbering, a log or pole, commonly used in pairs, upon which logs are handled or piled; also the log or pole laid transversely in a skid-road.

noun. A peeling-iron; an instrument for peeling bark from trees or logs.

In lumbering: To draw (logs) from the stump to the skidway, landing, or mill.

As applied to a road, to reinforce (it) by placing logs or poles across it.

To check with a brake, as wheels, so that they will continue to slide but not to rotate, as the wheels of a moving train. (See skid, intransitive verb, 1.)

To collect (logs) and pile upon a skidway.

intransitive verb. To slide without rotating; -- said of a wheel held from turning while the vehicle moves onward.

intransitive verb. To fail to grip the roadway; specif., to slip sideways on the road; to side-slip; -- said esp. of a cycle or automobile.

transitive verb. To protect or support with a skid or skids; also, to cause to move on skids.

transitive verb. To check with a skid, as wagon wheels.

transitive verb. To haul (logs) to a skid and load on a skidway.

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.

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

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

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.

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

"There is poverty some say the phrase "skid row" was invented here and in particular a high concentration of "gutter punks.""

spiked skid  to skid up  

on the skids  skid mark  skidded  skidding  

board  brake  bring up  coast  constraint  

Cid  Kid  Kidd  Kyd  Madrid  

axle  brake  rotor  

avalanche  bank  coast  crab  dip  

pallet  side-slip  skidded  skidding  

skidded  skidding  skids