Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In lumbering: Two skids laid parallel at right angles to a road, generally raised above the ground at the end nearest the road. Logs are usually piled upon a skid way as they are brought from the stump for loading upon sleds, wagons, or cars.
- noun A prepared path down which logs, etc., can slide as down a skid. See
skid , n., 2.
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Examples
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That the logs may be more easily handled they should be piled up on a skidway which is made by resting the top ends of a number of poles upon a big log or some other sort of elevation and their lower ends upon the ground.
Shelters, Shacks and Shanties Daniel Carter Beard 1895
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Kamahl withdrew power from the blade and continued down the road, walking just along the bloodied skidway.
Odyssey Moore, Vance 2001
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Kamahl withdrew power from the blade and continued down the road, walking just along the bloodied skidway.
Odyssey Moore, Vance 2001
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You will observe that they have cut a channel or 'travoy,' as it is called, through which the logs will roll after leaving the skidway, and pass on to the stream.
Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders in the Great North Woods Jessie Graham [pseud.] Flower
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"What makes you think that the skidway was tampered with?" questioned
Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders in the Great North Woods Jessie Graham [pseud.] Flower
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When Tom returned from the skidway he smiled and shook his head in answer to the question in Grace's eyes.
Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders in the Great North Woods Jessie Graham [pseud.] Flower
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The storm loosened the supports of the skidway and let the logs down.
Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders in the Great North Woods Jessie Graham [pseud.] Flower
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While she was doing this, the light now being strong enough to permit, Tom climbed the bank to examine the skidway from which the logs had swept down over their camp.
Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders in the Great North Woods Jessie Graham [pseud.] Flower
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Tom, in the meantime, climbed the bank to look at a huge pile of logs that lay on a skidway above their camping place.
Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders in the Great North Woods Jessie Graham [pseud.] Flower
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Dusenbery, of the Dusenbery Lumber Company; that it was his jacks who had turned the skidway loose on the Overland camp, and that it was Tatem himself, acting under orders, who had dynamited the big pine and tumbled it over on the Overlanders.
Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders in the Great North Woods Jessie Graham [pseud.] Flower
bilby commented on the word skidway
"He must have been fathered in late October or early November because his birthday was August 3, and one has even now a haunting sympathy for them all. For the girl who discovers in the depth of winter she is pregnant by a man she cannot reach. And for the man who died, crushed beneath the load of logs on the skidway, perhaps without even realising he had set a life in motion, which would in turn result in even such a life as mine."
- 'No Great Mischief', Alistair MacLeod.
February 19, 2008
reesetee commented on the word skidway
What a great book. :-)
February 19, 2008