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
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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
The skidway runs to the railway siding or water's edge.
From Handwork in Wood by William Noyes
The storm loosened the supports of the skidway and let the logs down.
From Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders in the Great North Woods by Jessie Graham [pseud.] Flower
At the second skidway one of the sawyers slapped a stick of timber.
From The Boss of Wind River by A. M. (Arthur Murray) Chisholm
Practically the only 80 wood in the construction was that employed in the skidway.
From The Radio Boys with the Revenue Guards by Gerald Breckenridge
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