DCHP-1 Online
roader [< (skid) road + -er] Lumbering 
n. a donkey engine having a very long cable on a drum, used for skidding logs out of the bush.
See also: road donkey
- 1919 [There were] Two . . . skidders, one yarder, one swing, one ground swing and one roader, and not very high ball.
- 1958 A small outfit consists of two or three donkey engines; one, a roader, and one or two yarders.
- 1919 [There were] Two . . . skidders, one yarder, one swing, one ground swing and one roader, and not very high ball.