skidway
a road or path formed of logs, planks, etc., for sliding objects.
a platform, usually inclined, for piling logs to be sawed or to be loaded onto a vehicle.
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How to use skidway in a sentence
Finally in looking over a skidway he noticed that one log had not been blue-pencilled across the end.
Blazed Trail Stories | Stewart Edward WhiteThe following day he culled a log in another and distant skidway whose butt showed a slant of a good six inches.
Blazed Trail Stories | Stewart Edward WhiteThe day following he culled another of the same sort on still another skidway.
Blazed Trail Stories | Stewart Edward WhiteNevertheless, after finishing conscientiously skidway number one, he moved on to skidway number two.
Blazed Trail Stories | Stewart Edward WhiteSome distance above the river the slope was gradual, and it was necessary to haul the logs to the skidway he had built.
The Girl From Keller's | Harold Bindloss
British Dictionary definitions for skidway
/ (ˈskɪdˌweɪ) /
a platform on which logs ready for sawing are piled
a track made of logs for rolling objects along
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