Skid [V.], Slip [V.]
Skid [V.], Slip [V.] : V. (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, large fenders hung over a vessel's side to protect it in handling a cargo. 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. One of a pair of horizontal rails or timbers for supporting anything, as a boat, a barrel, etc. Origin: Icel. Ski a billet of wood. See Shide Alternative forms: skeed. Source: Websters Dictionary. Skid may refer to: * Skid, a type of pallet, a metal, wood or plastic platform for holding machinery or equipment. Some pallets have planks across the bottom level, flush with the floor, but a skid has no planks along the full length or width to form a bottom level on the floor. * Skid (aerodynamic), an outward side-slip in an aircraft turn * Skid steering, a method of steering in which wheels or tracks are skidded sideways ** Skid-steered tracked vehicles **Skid loader, a small, usually wheeled vehicle used for loading and digging * Skid mark, a mark left where two surfaces rub against each other, especially a locked vehicle wheel on the road * Skid, a sled runner * Skid row, a neighborhood with a large number of vagrant people * Skid, a type of fairground ride * Short-term for script kiddie ;In logging * Skid road, a log path for removal of logs from a hilly forest * Skidder, a vehicle used in a logging operation for pulling cut trees out of a forest. (An OSH glossary used in safety and health at work which is, adopted by ILO
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