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Skid
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(n.) A runner (one or two) under some flying machines, used for landing.
(2):
(v.) Act of skidding; - called also side slip.
(3):
(v. t.) To protect or support with a skid or skids; also, to cause to move on skids.
(4):
(v. t.) To check with a skid, as wagon wheels.
(5):
(v. t.) To haul (logs) to a skid and load on a skidway.
(6):
(v. i.) To fail to grip the roadway; specif., to slip sideways on the road; to side-slip; - said esp. of a cycle or automobile.
(7):
(n.) One of a pair of horizontal rails or timbers for supporting anything, as a boat, a barrel, etc.
(8):
(n.) 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.
(9):
(v. i.) To slide without rotating; - said of a wheel held from turning while the vehicle moves onward.
(10):
(n.) 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.
(11):
(n.) Large fenders hung over a vessel's side to protect it in handling a cargo.
(12):
(n.) A piece of timber used as a support, or to receive pressure.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Skid'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/s/skid.html. 1828.
