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
In that case it must be cut into short billets and rolled, as a cant-hook man rolls a log down a skidway.
From Forest Neighbors Life Stories of Wild Animals by Hulbert, William Davenport
McCane and his men went to the nearest skidway and examined the logs.
From The Boss of Wind River by Chisholm, A. M. (Arthur Murray)
Only the Beaver has no cant-hook to help him, and no skidway, either.
From Forest Neighbors Life Stories of Wild Animals by Hulbert, William Davenport
Practically the only 80 wood in the construction was that employed in the skidway.
From The Radio Boys with the Revenue Guards by Breckenridge, Gerald
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