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Definitions of: skid

Definition: 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.

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

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

Definition: 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.

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

Definition: A runner (one or two) under some flying machines, used for landing.

Definition: A low movable platform for supporting heavy items to be transported, typically of two layers, and having a space between the layers into which the fork of a fork lift can be inserted; it is used to conveniently transport heavy objects by means of a fork lift; -- a skid without wheels is the same as a pallet.

Definition: Declining fortunes; a movement toward defeat or downfall; -- used mostly in the phrase on the skids and hit the skids.

Definition: Act of skidding; -- called also side slip.

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

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

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