to skid
6.9
To lift an object onto planks so it can be moved more easily
- verb
- /skɪd/
- Specialized
:
colocar sobre patines
- During transport, the team had to skid the items onto wooden supports for stability.
Examples
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What kind of machinery, harvesting and skidding machinery were they using?
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Rhonda skids her noisy truck to a halt in front of Pham Van's.
Fiction book (1990) -
The workers used a crane to skid the heavy equipment onto the flatbed truck.
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To move the large crates efficiently, they decided to skid them across the warehouse floor.
Compounds
anti-skid
- Specialized
3.9
A system in a vehicle that stops the wheels from sliding on wet or icy roads
landing skid
- Specialized
5.3
One of the two long horizontal supports under a helicopter that hold it on the ground
skid lid
- Slang
8.8
A protective helmet people wear when they ride a motorcycle to protect their head
Surface Forms
Etymology
Skid as a verb meaning to put something onto skids comes from the noun for those wooden supports, so to skid an object is to lift or place it onto skids to support it and make it easier to move.