n. - 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.
n. - A piece of timber used as a support, or to receive pressure.
n. - Large fenders hung over a vessel's side to protect it in handling a cargo.
n. - 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.
n. - One of a pair of horizontal rails or timbers for supporting anything, as a boat, a barrel, etc.
v. t. - To protect or support with a skid or skids; also, to cause to move on skids.
v. t. - To check with a skid, as wagon wheels.
n. - A runner (one or two) under some flying machines, used for landing.
v. - Act of skidding; -- called also side slip.
v. i. - To slide without rotating; -- said of a wheel held from turning while the vehicle moves onward.
v. i. - To fail to grip the roadway; specif., to slip sideways on the road; to side-slip; -- said esp. of a cycle or automobile.
v. t. - To haul (logs) to a skid and load on a skidway.