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skid - 1

Parf of speech: Verb, OED Year: 1878, OED Evaluation: Lumbering.

To haul (logs) on or along skids; to pile or place on a skid-way.

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... just going dandy and then come the labour lords, you-know to check us all out ... Well I says, "Why wouldn't you leave us alone." He says, "I guess but it's not in the book. It's not in the book. If it's not in the book, you couldn't do it." Well I said, "To hell with your book." I said, "Make common sense, the man that wrote that book, he never to the bush in his life." So anyways, went back to that and it worked great. Got along good. So that's how we skidded.
To haul (logs) on or along skids; to pile or place on a skid-way.