Skid, v. i. 1. To slide without rotating; -- said of a wheel held from turning while the vehicle moves onward.
2. To fail to grip the roadway; specif., to slip sideways on the road; to side-slip; -- said esp. of a cycle or automobile.
Skid, v. t. (Forestry) To haul (logs) to a skid and load on a skidway.
Skid"der (?), n. One that skids; one that uses a skid; specif.: (Logging) (a) One that skids logs. (b) An engine for hauling the cable used in skidding logs. (c) The foreman of a construction gang making a skid road.
Skid road. (Logging) (a) A road along which logs are dragged to the skidway or landing; -- called also travois, or travoy, road. (b) A road having partly sunken transverse logs (called skids) at intervals of about five feet.
Skit"ter (?), v. t. [Cf. Skit, v. t.] To move or pass (something) over a surface quickly so that it touches only at intervals; to skip.
The angler, standing in the bow, 'skitters' or skips the spoon over the surface.
James A. Henshall.
Skit"ter, v. i. To pass or glide lightly or with quick touches at intervals; to skip; to skim.
Some kinds of ducks in lighting strike the water with their tails first, and skitter along the surface for a feet before settling down.
T. Roosevelt.
||Skop*tsy" (?), n. pl. See Raskolnik.