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Definition of Skidding
1. skid [v] - See also: skid
Lexicographical Neighbors of Skidding
Literary usage of Skidding
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Gasoline Automobile by George William Hobbs (1915)
"skidding.—When traveling on slippery roads, avoid making sudden turns; also avoid
sudden application of the brakes or sudden changes of power, ..."
2. Forest Products, Their Manufacture and Use: Embracing the Principal by Nelson Courtlandt Brown (1919)
"skidding. skidding usually costs from 2 to 3 cents per tie. ... Go-devils are
sometimes used, especially on the longer skidding chances. ..."
3. Forest Products, Their Manufacture and Use: Embracing the Principal by Nelson Courtlandt Brown (1919)
"skidding. skidding usually costs from 2 to 3 cents per tie. ... Go-devils are
sometimes used, especially on the longer skidding chances. ..."
4. The Automobile Book: A Practical Treatise on the Construction, Operation and by Charles E. Duryea, James Edward Homans (1915)
"skidding OR SIDE-SLIDING. skidding and its Dangers.—No subject connected with
the automobile has attracted more attention than skidding, and received less ..."
5. Automobile Driving Self-taught: An Exhaustive Treatise on the Operation by Thomas Herbert Russell (1909)
"skidding or Side-slip. skidding is one of the most dangerous enemies that the
auto- mobilist has to guard ... skidding may be divided into two classes: 1. ..."
6. Putnam's Automobile Handbook: The Care and Management of the Modern Motor-car by Harry Clifford Brokaw, Charles Ackerman Starr (1918)
"Autos as well as men take to skidding quite easily, and not infrequently come to
grief. We use rubber heels to absorb shocks and jars just as we use rubber ..."
7. Elements of Forestry by Frederick Franklin Moon, Nelson Courtlandt Brown (1914)
"skidding. — This is the operation of dragging the log to the landing where ...
Power skidding is now commonly used to drag the logs directly from the woods ..."
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