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Skidded

Skid \Skid\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Skidded; p. pr. & vb. n. Skidding.]

  1. To protect or support with a skid or skids; also, to cause to move on skids.

  2. To check with a skid, as wagon wheels.
    --Dickens.

  3. (Forestry) To haul (logs) to a skid and load on a skidway.

Wiktionary
skidded

vb. (en-past of: skid)

WordNet
skid

  1. n. one of a pair of planks used to make a track for rolling or sliding objects

  2. a restraint provided when the brake linings are moved hydraulically against the brake drum to retard the wheel's rotation [syn: brake shoe, shoe]

  3. an unexpected slide [syn: slip, sideslip]

  4. [also: skidding, skidded]

skid

  1. v. slide without control; "the car skidded in the curve on the wet road"

  2. elevate onto skids

  3. apply a brake or skid to

  4. move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner; "the wheels skidded against the sidewalk" [syn: slip, slue, slew, slide]

  5. [also: skidding, skidded]

skidded

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Usage examples of "skidded".

Whinnying, he skidded to a stop so fast that Marston was nearly thrown off.

Harvey, on his own initiative, erected a TV antenna that resembled a young airplane skidded to a stop against the central chimney pile on the rooftop.

She held on tight as the shuddering apparatus skidded over the board planks kicking up the cedar scent long dormant in the wood, which pleased her.

The Harley skidded under him, his right leg going out, bracing the machine as his arms strained to right the black bike between his legs.

He skidded the bike into a tight turn, stopping it, drawing the Python, thumbing back the hammer.

As he skidded the jeep around, slamming on the brakes as he fumbled the transmission into first, he could see guards running toward him from the far end of the camp.

He skidded down a low embankment, rolling behind some scrub brush, low against the ground, the road below him as Soames moved along it on the small bike.

Sarah pressed herself against the side of the truck as the car skidded out of the oncoming lanes and across, narrowly missing the front of the truck and slamming into a utility pole.

Like my grandfather had died that Christmas two years earlier when his car skidded off the road in a blizzard!

Its blood-red scales plowed a furrow of powdery sand as it skidded to a halt.

Jedit crumpled, skidded, and sat down hard, dragging table and pirates on top of him.

People skidded in mud trying to manhandle the long hook through the air and let it fall amidst the burning rafters of a boathouse.

Losing the junk both lightened the ship and made it safer, since fewer obstacles clattered and skidded underfoot.

The soldiers were trained to stand their ground and work in pairs, yet the quick ferocity of the man-killing tiger knocked one man against a boulder, so he skidded and fell.

He skidded to a stop right before Elbryan, throwing a vicious overhead chop.