| 释义 |
skidding, vbl. n.|ˈskɪdɪŋ|
[f. skid n. or v.1]
1. concr. Timber or planks used as a support for a gun, etc., or to facilitate its removal.
1859Griffiths Artill. Man. (1862) 123 One piece of short skidding, 4½ feet long, five..inches square. Ibid. 124, 4..assists 2 at the lever and skidding. 1879Man. Artill. Exerc. 513 The frame..[is] supported..by two upright oak skids,..and by coins, scotches, or skidding, inserted between it and the fore carriage.
2. Lumbering. (See quot. 1878.) Also attrib. in skidding-team, skidding-tongs.
1877Lumberman's Gaz. 22 Dec., Pevys Skidding Tongs always on hand. 1878Scribner's Mag. XV. 147 Skidding is hauling logs together and placing them on skids convenient for loading. 1893Ibid. June 707/1 The skidding-team is brought in and the log is..hauled away. Ibid., In the case of small logs, it is grappled with ‘skidding-tongs’, which seize the log like a pair of pinchers.
3. The action of the verb skid (esp. sense 3).
1889Hull & E. Yorks. Times 27 Apr., Bump on the roadway, through the skidding of the wheels over the wet stones. 1889Daily News 21 June 6/3 There was no skidding of the wheels, and there was no appearance of the brake having been applied. |