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Skidding

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
skidding

n. The motion of something that skids. vb. (present participle of skid English)

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]

skidding

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Skidding

Usage examples of "skidding".

One time he ducked the attack, skidding to his knees but coming right back up agilely to run on.

He had braced himself there, evidently to belay Cal against a fall that would send him skidding down the rock slope below.

My body jerked and quivered with each blow, skidding on the leaf-strewn ground, and I clung to the sense of the ground below me, trying so hard to sink down, be swallowed by the earth.

As he pulled Gorp to a skidding stop and turned the horse about, he saw the Bright Knight lying motionless on the grass.

His feet slid out from under, skidding on hailstones, and he fell headlong into the pile.

After only a few moments the pickup had come racing wildly back over the hill and out of the hayfield, skidding to a stop on the gravel farmyard.

VooDoo got outside, Kyre helplessly watched him run across the street, cars skidding and swerving to avoid the raving lunatic wailing and running with his arms flailing.

He did not want to think of her skidding into a ditch on the Lairg road.

The boy had brought the Pod to a skidding halt in the center of the raceway, shut down the Radon-Ulzers, and climbed out.

Only three cats had been seduced from the track by hooligans who hooted like owls to scare the cats into skidding off the track, or hollered like fishmongers, waving overripe fish or raw chicken legs.

We followed a path in the snow until we were more or less by ourselves at the top of a low hill, looking down on a few halfhearted sledders skidding through the circus glow of the Christmas lights.

There were patches of ice on the bridges, and after skidding a couple of times, he cursed Marcie for living in the boondocks.

The sand at the bottom of the draw sucked mushily under his shoes, and he climbed up the other side, skidding slightly.

The panzer is trying to turn on a reverse camber, skidding on a bed of corn silk as gravity and momentum try to turn it over.

Laughing aloud, wild-eyed, Manfred held the wheel hard over, bringing the Alfa around in a tight skidding circle, crackling sideways through another Protea bush.