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skid - 2

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1851, OED Evaluation: Logging. U.S.

One of a set of peeled logs or timbers, partially sunk into the ground, and forming a roadway along or down which logs are drawn or slid; also, one of the logs forming a skidway

ExampleMeaning
... you either lifted or pushed the logs up skids to the places- and they were what they called corners, and on the corners, they'd match the logs in. ... I never- I never attended a loud rai-- I never attended a barn-raising.
One of a set of peeled logs or timbers, partially sunk into the ground, and forming a roadway along or down which logs are drawn or slid; also, one of the logs forming a skidway
ExampleMeaning
Speaker: You-see they had to have skids, and it shoved the log up. Well you had to have three or four darn good men on them (inc). ... Interviewer: Isn't there a kind of a pole that you need? ... Speaker: Ah they call them a bowl. ... a long pole and a piece that way (inc) on the log. ... And they started up so far up the skid you-see, 'til they got that in. Then there was handles across it. And they shoved the head.
One of a set of peeled logs or timbers, partially sunk into the ground, and forming a roadway along or down which logs are drawn or slid; also, one of the logs forming a skidway
ExampleMeaning
We were out ah, unloading the truck. Well the truck was gone and we had the skids out there. It was warm right? It was summer. So we saw, in a distance the other end of the parking lot a blond come out with a white tank- top. And ah I can 't remember her pants. But she was just sitting there in the sun, we were just like, "Wow, I wonder if she 's hot"?
One of a set of peeled logs or timbers, partially sunk into the ground, and forming a roadway along or down which logs are drawn or slid; also, one of the logs forming a skidway
ExampleMeaning
He was basically trying to find out I- guess who put the skid there right. "Well this is unacceptable." I said, "I realize that it 's unacceptable and I- that 's why I wouldn 't have done it." You-know, but I was only at that place for about two-and-a-half to three months. ... I got my forklift license there, my (inc) license, you-know, my transportation-of-dangerous-business and stuff. So it was good for that anyways. Not that I need them now but- ... Actually the final straw I can remember. There's a lot of chemicals and stuff at that place. You- know like sandbags? Kind-of army guys pile those. It's like that, but there's chemicals in them? So they pile them on skids. They're like little plastic beads ... they always said if you hear the alarms, jump off your truck and just run at an exit as soon as you can because the whole place could just completely blow up, right? So taking stuff out of racks on my fork-truck ... you had to be very careful 'cause if you clip the metal corner of the racking when you 're pulling a skid out, it would rip that bag open and the little plastic pellets would all start pouring out of the bags.
One of a set of peeled logs or timbers, partially sunk into the ground, and forming a roadway along or down which logs are drawn or slid; also, one of the logs forming a skidway
ExampleMeaning
Five- five-hundred people is huge. People are chucking skids, entire skids, onto the um onto the fire and ah other people put, like- did Jayden dance on one? ... like, the people are chucking skids on the fire and people are going, like, dancing on top of these skids in the middle of the fucking fire. And I- yeah, I got pretty- pretty drunk.
One of a set of peeled logs or timbers, partially sunk into the ground, and forming a roadway along or down which logs are drawn or slid; also, one of the logs forming a skidway
I know Jayden-Lee. I was walking around with him and talking for a bit and he's dancing on the fire at one point. And he's not getting burned. It was a huge bonfire, probably, like, you-know, like, big enough. Like- 'kay, think of piling, like, four skids side-by-side. So, must have been, like, you-know, eight-feet-by-eight-feet, this fire. ... And, like, you-know, thirteen-feet tall (laughs). And ah there's a skid on there, and Jayden's just standing on these fucking dancing around.
One of a set of peeled logs or timbers, partially sunk into the ground, and forming a roadway along or down which logs are drawn or slid; also, one of the logs forming a skidway
ExampleMeaning
On mine- ah we were at Pete-Liskard's, we- there was like two fires going. Like a little shitty fire where everyone was just sitting around probably be like- I-don't-know, jerking to each other, I-don't-know. But anyways, there was another one far- farther away from the campsite where there was a larger one and like we were putting skids and- (inc) there's like all the people that I hung around with, with like- like- like Larry-LaSalle was there, Joe was there, Tyler was there, Riley, all them um- Carl-Giorgio, do you remember him? Carl-Giorgio.
One of a set of peeled logs or timbers, partially sunk into the ground, and forming a roadway along or down which logs are drawn or slid; also, one of the logs forming a skidway
ExampleMeaning
So you'd move the logs out, l-- log wall out. And you had the- nailed all up and-so-on, and skids under them.
One of a set of peeled logs or timbers, partially sunk into the ground, and forming a roadway along or down which logs are drawn or slid; also, one of the logs forming a skidway
ExampleMeaning
And ah, so buddy mentioned to me that they were going to ship their bikes out to- ... To Vancouver and they were going to ride back. ... So on the Tuesday before the August long weekend, I took my bike to Barrie and ah, we put it on a metal skid like the- is inside the crates that Harleys come on. You kind-of drive it into this thing and it drops in and then you strap to the skid and they pick the whole skid up with a forklift, put it right in the trailer.
One of a set of peeled logs or timbers, partially sunk into the ground, and forming a roadway along or down which logs are drawn or slid; also, one of the logs forming a skidway
ExampleMeaning
Speaker: And- and- and this part here, the wooden part has a steel thing on the end, so you- you dig it into the log like that and you roll it. So it's for- it's really a log roller. ... Interviewer 1: So it's like almost to- for leverage. ... Interviewer 2: And that would really control the log. Speaker: Yes, yes. And usually one person on each end of the log and- and- and then you would have like two skids and roll them up onto the truck and that sort of thing.
One of a set of peeled logs or timbers, partially sunk into the ground, and forming a roadway along or down which logs are drawn or slid; also, one of the logs forming a skidway
ExampleMeaning
Back in those days, there wasn't hydraulics, lift-trucks and-stuff-like-that, you- you pile them on a truck that had a stationary roller on the back ... Then once the car was empty it had to take all that and pile all in the crossers on skids to the side of the laneway that you're in. A lot of handling, a lot of work, a lot of physical labour. But it was just the way it was back then.
One of a set of peeled logs or timbers, partially sunk into the ground, and forming a roadway along or down which logs are drawn or slid; also, one of the logs forming a skidway
ExampleMeaning
And then dad was pretty- pretty crafty and pretty handy fellow and- and ah, they built tongs and-stuff-like-that for skid and logs and did repairs and made horseshoes ...
One of a set of peeled logs or timbers, partially sunk into the ground, and forming a roadway along or down which logs are drawn or slid; also, one of the logs forming a skidway