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Skid   /skɪd/   Listen
noun
Skid  n.  (Written also skeed)  
1.
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.
2.
A piece of timber used as a support, or to receive pressure. Specifically:
(a)
pl. (Naut.) Large fenders hung over a vessel's side to protect it in handling a cargo.
(b)
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.
(c)
One of a pair of horizontal rails or timbers for supporting anything, as a boat, a barrel, etc.
3.
(Aeronautics) A runner (one or two) under some flying machines, used for landing.
4.
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.
5.
pl. Declining fortunes; a movement toward defeat or downfall; used mostly in the phrase on the skids and hit the skids.
6.
Act of skidding; called also side slip.


verb
Skid  v. t.  (past & past part. skidded; pres. part. skidding)  
1.
To protect or support with a skid or skids; also, to cause to move on skids.
2.
To check with a skid, as wagon wheels.
3.
(Forestry) To haul (logs) to a skid and load on a skidway.


Skid  v. i.  
1.
To slide without rotating; said of a wheel held from turning while the vehicle moves onward.
2.
To fail to grip the roadway; specif., to slip sideways on the road; to side-slip; said esp. of a cycle or automobile.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Skid" Quotes from Famous Books



... and that by the same token it is a good place to look for "my wandering boy tonight." I can believe all this especially on Third street. Third street should be called by some other name or it should have a nickname. If it were in Seattle it would be known as "skid row." Third street doesn't describe it ...
— Vignettes of San Francisco • Almira Bailey
... get. You might think the world would notice a woman's best efforts. No, they all try to crowd her and see her slip. If they don't watch out I'll skid, all right, and with some one they least expect. ...
— Linda Condon • Joseph Hergesheimer
... your boy all his life you could not expect to cross him in his first love affair and get away with it. No, sir-ree! The thing to do is to put the skids under Joey and his lady love before they know you know it. Tell me more about her, however, before I begin making skids and skid grease." ...
— Cappy Ricks Retires • Peter B. Kyne
... had a swerve skid; but as there was plenty of room for eccentricities, nothing happened except that the car tried to ...
— The Grim Smile of the Five Towns • Arnold Bennett
... his search, not daring to ask questions, simply keeping his eyes open for the man. Finally he had been forced to abandon the search when he saw a stereo newscast reporting that the missing cadet, Tom Corbett, had been traced to Skid Row. He decided that it was time to leave Mars and went to the huge main spaceport, hoping to get aboard a ship bound for Earth. But the Space Marines were stationed at every gate, examining each departing passenger carefully, and Tom knew it would be impossible ...
— Sabotage in Space • Carey Rockwell


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