skidding

Etymology

verb

  1. present participle and gerund of skid

noun

  1. The motion of something that skids.
    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. 1917, B. M. Bower, Starr of the Desert, page 57
  2. (forestry) The logging operation for pulling cut trees out of a forest.

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