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skid road

noun

  1. a track made of a set of logs laid transversely on which freshly cut timber can be hauled
    1. (in the West) the part of a town frequented by loggers
    2. another term for skid row
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

In pole and piling timber where a skid road and horses are used, loading is done by hand or with a team.

The horse team and skid road is used in a small timber where poles and piling are being marketed.

More ox-teams appeared upon the skid-road, which was longer now; the cry of "Timber-r-r!"

Last time I was up, I slipped between the logs on the old skid-road and like to broke my old fool neck.

They took their lives in their hands on skid-road and spring-board, that such as she might flourish.

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