skiddingn.
/ˈskɪdɪŋ/ 1. concrete. Timber or planks used as a support for a gun, etc., or to facilitate its removal.
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > gun carriage > [noun] > planks to support gun or carriage
sleeper1688
ribband1832
skidding1859
trail-plank1859
1859 F. A. Griffiths Artillerist's Man. (1862) 123 One piece of short skidding, 4½ feet long, five..inches square.
1859 F. A. Griffiths Artillerist's Man. (1862) 124 4..assists 2 at the lever and skidding.
1879 Man. Siege & Garrison Artillery Exercises 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 attributive in skidding-team, skidding-tongs.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [noun] > transport of logs
flume1784
log-rollinga1792
drive1835
river-driving1843
river drive1845
sluice-way1851
sacking1860
timber drivea1861
skidding1877
log-running1878
skid road1880
rigging1897
swamping1902
log-drivea1904
high lead1905
high-lining1919
1877 Lumberman's Gaz. 22 Dec. Pevys Skidding Tongs always on hand.
1878 Scribner's Monthly 15 147 Skidding is hauling logs together and placing them on skids convenient for loading.
1893 Scribner's Mag. June 707/1 The skidding-team is brought in and the log is..hauled away.
1893 Scribner's Mag. June 707/1 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 skid v.1 (esp. sense 3).
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicles according to means of motion > vehicle moving on wheels > [noun] > parts of vehicle moving on wheels > wheel > specific movement of wheels
lock1794
skidding1889
shimmying1919
shimmy1925
wheel spin1928
wheel wobble1930
tramp1935
wheel slip1945
1889 Hull & E. Yorks. Times 27 Apr. Bump on the roadway, through the skidding of the wheels over the wet stones.
1889 Daily News 21 June 6/3 There was no skidding of the wheels, and there was no appearance of the brake having been applied.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
> as lemmas
ˈskidding
ˈskidding adj.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > progressive motion > specific manner of progressive motion > [adjective] > slipping or sliding > obliquely
skidding1897
side-slipping1916
society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > movement of vehicles > [adjective] > skidding
skidding1897
unscrewed1962
1897 Daily News 31 Dec. 3/1 Skidding 'buses, and the fog silence.
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.
<
n.1859as lemmas