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Skidder

noun
1.
A person who slips or slides because of loss of traction.  Synonyms: slider, slipper.
2.
A worker who uses a skid to move logs.
3.
A tractor used to haul logs over rough terrain.






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"Skidder" Quotes from Famous Books



... put on a smart mourning hat and her black furs, and walked down to see the bank president, Mr. Pawling. The subject of their conversation was investments; and it bored her. At five she returned to the house to receive a certain Mr. Skidder—known in her childhood as Blinky Skidder, in frank recognition of an ocular peculiarity—a dingy but jaunty young man with a sheep's nose, a shrewd upper lip, and snapping red-brown eyes, who came breezily ...
— The Crimson Tide • Robert W. Chambers

... survived Mrs. Parker's scorn, you were taken to look at Mr. Skidder's large hall room on the third floor. Mr. Skidder's room was not vacant. He wrote plays and smoked cigarettes in it all day long. But every room-hunter was made to visit his room to admire the lambrequins. After each visit, Mr. Skidder, from the fright caused by possible eviction, would ...
— The Four Million • O. Henry



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