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Skidder

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1870, OED Evaluation: N/A

(a) a lumberman who hauls logs along the skids to the skidway; (b) a tractor or other machine for skidding logs.

ExampleMeaning
He- right now he's working um in the forestry industry and they work to ah set up the plots for the tree planters. So he's driving a huge skidder in the middle of nowhere.
A tractor or other machine for skidding logs.
ExampleMeaning
Speaker 1: No but I wouldn't let anybody into my bush with a skidder. Speaker 2: They just destroy every tree. You-know they get one where the horses would work around them. Speaker 1: No, you would never get into my bush with a skidder. Interviewer: So a skidder is what? Speaker 1: It's what they skid the logs with. Speaker 2: It's a big heavy- Interviewer: Big heavy thing.
A tractor or other machine for skidding logs.
ExampleMeaning
You couldn't buy a bush lot today even with your big skidders and-stuff and pay for it in three weeks. You couldn't do it. 'Cause it's going to cost you two-hundred-thousand or three-hundred-thousand for that.
A tractor or other machine for skidding logs.
ExampleMeaning
Yeah yeah yeah, no. I've got my li-- my chainsaw skidder license ah but I've been using a chainsaw since I was you-know just a young, well I cut my own wood and then um, I cut my own logs too sometimes and that one storm we had- you-know I had a lot of stuff came down too so you hate to see it go to waste.
(a) a lumberman who hauls logs along the skids to the skidway; (b) a tractor or other machine for skidding logs.