skidway

American  

[skid-wey] / ˈskɪdˌweɪ /

noun

1. a road or path formed of logs, planks, etc., for sliding objects.

2. a platform, usually inclined, for piling logs to be sawed or to be loaded onto a vehicle.

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skidway British  

/ ˈskɪdˌweɪ /

noun

1. a platform on which logs ready for sawing are piled

2. a track made of logs for rolling objects along

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Etymology

Origin of skidway

An Americanism dating back to 1875–80; skid + way ¹

Example Sentences

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

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

He knew that at the next skidway the men were gathered, waiting to see what he would do; gathered openly at last in that final hostility which had been maturing all winter.

From Blazed Trail Stories and Stories of the Wild Life by White, Stewart Edward

The following day he culled a log in another and distant skidway whose butt showed a slant of a good six inches.

From Blazed Trail Stories and Stories of the Wild Life by White, Stewart Edward