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Skid

noun

(Written also skeed)

One of a pair of planks used to make a track for rolling or sliding objects.

A restraint provided when the brake linings are moved hydraulically against the brake drum to retard the wheel's rotation. Synonyms: brake shoe, shoe.

An unexpected slide. Synonyms: sideslip, slip.

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"Skid" Quotes from Famous Books

... their spare energy in arguing. It did not matter what the argument was about—the President, Roosevelt, the Kaiser, the world series—any subject would do so long as it would grow into an argument. The rest of the crew could hear them—threatening to bust each other's eyes out—clear to the skid deck sometimes. But now all quiet here, and soon they were edging out of their igloo and calling down to the fellows on the main deck: "That right about a ship being shelled by a sub? Yes. Well!" They went down to their shelter ...

— The U-boat hunters • James B. Connolly

... passed by with little to mark their progress. The English climate was at its worst, and three times out of four the journey to school was accomplished in rain or sleet. The motor-'buses were crammed with passengers, and manifested an unpleasant tendency to skid; pale- faced strap-holders crowded the carriages of the Tube; for days together the sky remained a leaden grey. It takes a Mark Tapley himself to keep smiling under such conditions. As Claire recalled the days when she and her ...

— The Independence of Claire • Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey

... down to the banking grounds, Fig. 14, or log dump, it is stopped opposite long parallel skids. The wrapping chains are unhooked and the lower log on the skid side is worked out with cant-hooks till the whole load flattens out. The logs are then "decked" on immense piles, sometimes a mile long and filling the whole river from bank to bank. A decking chain 300 feet long is sometimes required to roll the logs to their ...

— Handwork in Wood • William Noyes

Words linked to "Skid" : plank, chute, get up, raise, side-slip, elevate, brake, constraint, brake lining, glide, submarine, board, coast, lift, sloping trough, bring up, slideway, drum brake, restraint