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skid ((v.)) † Lumbering

• 1 v. slide or drag logs down a prepared slide.

  See also: skid ((n.)) (def. 1b)  

  • 1884  [They were] skidding logs. . . .
  • 1912  Skid, to slide a lumber log down an incline to the skidway, where the logs are temporarily stacked until the big drive.
  • 1950  Sometimes the logs are skidded down a chute on a steep hill [to the water or beach]

• 2a v. drag or haul logs from a cutting area along a skid trail or skidroad (def. 1) with horses, oxen, etc.

  See also: skidroad ((n.))  (def. 1)  skid trail  

  • 1888  (1890)  . . . two men skidding with a team will, if timber grows fairly thick . . . pile eighty logs in a day.
  • 1939  . . .Olaf Johansen, the big Swede . . . with a crew had been on the place all winter skidding the logs down from the hillsides. . . .
  • 1966  The grandaddy of all lumbering stamps, Newfoundland's 1897 issue featuring cattle skidding logs, was one of a 14-stamp set commemorating the 400th anniversary of its founding.

• 2b v. See quote.

  • 1966  In both regions [B.C. Coast and Interior] . . . "donkeys" [donkey engines] were used to skid logs along the ground

• 2c v. haul, drag, or transport logs with a skidder (def. 3c).

  See also: skidder (def. 3c)  

  • 1964  Trees are felled with power saws . . . and a tractor used to skid the logs to the trail.
  • 1966  [Advert.] Working out of Port Arthur, Ontario, he skids, forwards and loads pulpwood.

• 3 v. skid a road, make a skidroad (def. 1).

  See also: corduroy ((v.))  

  • 1959  He said "You look quite happy, all in your little abode. A pox upon the devil, boys! Why didn't you skid the road!"