Skid

Skid

Skid may refer to:
* Skid, a pallet, a wood or plastic platform for holding machinery or equipment
* Skid (aerodynamic), an outward side-slip in an aircraft turn
* Skid steering, a method of steering by braking tracks or wheels on one side of a vehicle, such as:
** Skid-steered tracked vehicles
**Skid loader, a small, usually wheeled vehicle used for loading and digging
* Skid mark, a mark left where two surfaces rub against each other, especially a locked vehicle wheel on the road
* Skid, a sled runner
* Skid road, a log path for removal of logs from a hilly forest
* Skid row, a neighborhood with a large number of vagrant people
* Skid, a type of fairground ride
* Skid (gang), a gang of disenfranchised, delinquent youth
* Skidder, a vehicle used in a logging operation for pulling cut trees out of a forest in a process called "skidding"


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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. [1913 Webster] 2. To check with a skid, as wagon wheels. Dickens. [1913 Webster] 3. (Forestry) To… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • skid — [skid] n. [Early ModE, prob. < ON skith: see SKI ] ☆ 1. a plank, log, etc., often one of a pair or set, used as a support or as a track upon which to slide or roll a heavy object 2. a low, movable wooden platform for holding loads or stacks 3 …   English World dictionary

  • Skid — (sk[i^]d), n. [Icel. sk[=i][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… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • skid — [skɪd] noun [countable] a pallet * * * skid UK US /skɪd/ noun [C] US COMMERCE, PRODUCTION, TRANSPORT ► PALLET(Cf. ↑pallet) …   Financial and business terms

  • 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… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • skid — [v] slide against will drift, glide, go into skid, move, sheer, skew, slip, slue, swerve, veer; concept 152 …   New thesaurus

  • skid — sb., en, e el. er, ene el. erne; ikke en skid …   Dansk ordbog

  • skid — vb *slide, slip, glide, glissade, slither, coast, toboggan …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • skid — (See pallet) …   Glossary of postal terms

  • skid — ► VERB (skidded, skidding) 1) (of a vehicle) slide sideways on slippery ground or as a result of stopping or turning too quickly. 2) slip; slide. ► NOUN 1) an act of skidding. 2) a runner attached to the underside of an aircraft for use when… …   English terms dictionary

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