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skid-way

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1879, OED Evaluation: N/A

An inclined way formed of skids.

ExampleMeaning
I heard my father saying that he worked in a woods when he was young and he said some of the timber, the logs that they'd condem, say they weren’t fit for anything, wouldn’t use them to make a skid way to pile logs on.
A road or path formed of logs, planks, etc., for sliding objects (often other logs).
ExampleMeaning
... my dad put together a machine that they call the jammer for lifting the logs rather then rolling them off the sleigh and having the horses pull them up on a skidway. This machine picked them up off the- the sleigh and put them on the log pile.
A road or path formed of logs, planks, etc., for sliding objects (often other logs).
ExampleMeaning
Or where you get a skid way to put them on the sleigh and bring them up to the barn.
A road or path formed of logs, planks, etc., for sliding objects (often other logs).
Interviewer: Now how do you skid logs? Speaker: (Laughs) Well you put them in ah s-- whippletree and chain and drive them into the bush where the log was and hitch onto it with the chain onto it and then you pull it out with the horses into an open space. Or where you get a skid way to put them on the sleigh and bring them up to the barn. And ah some of them you could skid them out into the field and then load them onto a truck. And later on, I skidded them out into the field and loaded them on to the- a wagon and brought them to town with a tractor and wagon. Ah, good load on the wagon about eight miles to save hiring a truck. And ah I like working in the bush and ah worked for people at Poland. Cutting logs and skidding and- and got used to doing it so.
A road or path formed of logs, planks, etc., for sliding objects (often other logs).
ExampleMeaning
Interviewer: So what would be the biggest tree you could cut down? ... What kind of things did you learn? Speaker: Well, to start with they ah- they got through the bush and they pick out the skid ways where they're going to put- skid the logs onto and then the road ways so when you following trees, you don't follow the tree so they have to move all that brush you-see?
A road or path formed of logs, planks, etc., for sliding objects (often other logs).