skidding

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Verb

skidding

  1. present participle and gerund of skid

Noun

skidding (plural skiddings)

  1. The motion of something that skids.
    • 1917, B. M. Bower, Starr of the Desert, page 57:
      When an automobile, for instance, traveled that road, it was with many skiddings in the sand on the turns, which it must take circumspectly if the driver did not care for the rocky, uneven floor of the desert itself.
  2. (forestry) The logging operation for pulling cut trees out of a forest.

Synonyms

  • (the motion of something that skids): skid

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