skidway
Americannoun
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a road or path formed of logs, planks, etc., for sliding objects.
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a platform, usually inclined, for piling logs to be sawed or to be loaded onto a vehicle.
noun
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a platform on which logs ready for sawing are piled
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a track made of logs for rolling objects along
Etymology
Origin of skidway
Example Sentences
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Drawn up the gaping skidway by steel cables thrumming on giant steam-driven winches, the whale reached the broad afterdeck.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then Bob unlocked the big double doors and rolled them back, and the three trundled the plane out to the skidway where Jack spun the propeller while Bob manipulated the controls.
From The Radio Boys with the Revenue Guards by Breckenridge, Gerald
Chapter IX—Lumberjacks Seek Revenge 91 "The skidway was tampered with!"
From Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders in the Great North Woods by Flower, Jessie Graham [pseud.]
You will observe that they have cut a channel or 'travoy,' as it is called, through which the logs will roll after leaving the skidway, and72 pass on to the stream.
From Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders in the Great North Woods by Flower, Jessie Graham [pseud.]
Not since that morning on the skidway had the two met.
From The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest by Hendryx, James B. (James Beardsley)
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