vt to check with a skid, as wagon wheels.
2. skid ·add. ·v act of skidding;
called also side slip.
3. skid ·noun a piece of timber used as a support, or to receive pressure.
4. skid ·add. ·vt to haul (logs) to a skid and load on a skidway.
5. skid ·noun large fenders hung over a vessel's side to protect it in handling a cargo.
6. skid ·vt to protect or support with a skid or skids; also, to cause to move on skids.
7. skid ·add. ·noun a runner (one or two) under some flying machines, used for landing.
8. skid ·noun one of a pair of horizontal rails or timbers for supporting anything, as a boat, a barrel, ·etc.
9. skid ·add. ·vi to slide without rotating;
said of a wheel held from turning while the vehicle moves onward.
10. skid ·add. ·vi to fail to grip the roadway; specif., to slip sideways on the road; to side-slip;
said ·esp. of a cycle or automobile.
11. skid ·noun 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.
12. skid ·noun 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.