| 单词 | skidder |
| 释义 | > as lemmasˈskidder ˈskidder n. (a) , a lumberman who hauls logs along the skids to the skidway; (b) a tractor or other machine for skidding logs. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [noun] > transport of logs > one who rafter1741 driver1825 river-driver1825 rear crew1851 loadera1862 skidder1870 floater1889 river hog1902 river rat1905 boom-man1908 river pig1908 rearing crew1944 the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [noun] > lumbering equipment > log-hauling engine or contrivance carry-log1775 skidder1870 go-devil1871 yarder1911 1870 Overland Monthly V. 56/1 Another, called the ‘skidder’, skids the road. 1883 in Cent. Dict. The skidders haul the logs to the pile. 1905 Terms Forestry & Logging (Bull. U.S. Dept. Agric., Bureau Forestry, No. 61) 32 Bummer, a small truck with two low wheels and a long pole, used in skidding logs. Syn.: drag cart, skidder. 1945 B. Macdonald Egg & I (1946) 184 These toots were the signals given by the ‘whistle punk’ to direct the operations of the skidder bringing in the logs. 1965 Weekend Mag. 2 Oct. 3/3 Then it lays the denuded trunk on the ground and another machine, called ‘a skidder’, takes it to a landing area where it is cut into pulpwood lengths. 1976 New Yorker 3 May 52/2 The skidder, which vaguely resembles a pair of tractors coupled together..replaced the horse not long ago as the means of ‘twitching’ a tree..from the cutter to the truck. < as lemmas |
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