skid road


noun(in the US and Canada)
  1. a track made of a set of logs laid transversely on which freshly cut timber can be hauled

    • (in the West) the part of a town frequented by loggers

    • another term for skid row

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How to use skid road in a sentence

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

    Motor Truck Logging Methods | Frederick Malcolm Knapp
  • The horse team and skid road is used in a small timber where poles and piling are being marketed.

    Motor Truck Logging Methods | Frederick Malcolm Knapp
  • More ox-teams appeared upon the skid-road, which was longer now; the cry of "Timber-r-r!"

    The Valley of the Giants | Peter B. Kyne
  • Last time I was up, I slipped between the logs on the old skid-road and like to broke my old fool neck.

    The Valley of the Giants | Peter B. Kyne
  • They took their lives in their hands on skid-road and spring-board, that such as she might flourish.

    Big Timber | Bertrand W. Sinclair