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Skid

noun

(Written also skeed)

One of a pair of planks used to make a track for rolling or sliding objects.

A restraint provided when the brake linings are moved hydraulically against the brake drum to retard the wheel's rotation. Synonyms: brake shoe, shoe.

An unexpected slide. Synonyms: sideslip, slip.

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"Skid" Quotes from Famous Books

... time we have any trouble from the cats is one evening when Pop comes home and the two kittens skid down the hall between his legs, with Cat after them. He scales his hat at the lot of them and roars down the hall to me, "Hey, Davey! When are you getting rid of these cats? I'm not fixing to start an annex to ...

— It's like this, cat • Emily Neville

... man may lose himself if he chooses, and that by the same token it is a good place to look for "my wandering boy tonight." I can believe all this especially on Third street. Third street should be called by some other name or it should have a nickname. If it were in Seattle it would be known as "skid row." Third street ...

— Vignettes of San Francisco • Almira Bailey

... laying her hand on mine, "old books and old friends are best, and I should think you had really rather have a nice safe old car than any new one. Thieves don't take old cars, as you know. And you can't insure them, that's a comfort! And cars don't skid and collide just because they are old, do they? And you never have to scold the children about the paint and—and the old thing does go—what do you think Lamb ...

— The Hills of Hingham • Dallas Lore Sharp

... there would come interruptions, like iron bars striking dark, jagged holes in the tissue of life. From time to time I heard inexplicable noises—the whirring of motors, the skid-skid of tires on invisible streets, the rumble of carts around corners of a world where there were no carts. Again and again those moments of confusion would come over me, when I seemed to be looking into two worlds at once, one superimposed ...

— The Chamber of Life • Green Peyton Wertenbaker

... common on Mars as saloons are on Broadway, and it is not unusual to see "gone" Martians getting heaved out of these bars right into the gutter. One nostalgic hood from Seattle said it reminded him of Skid ...

— Mars Confidential • Jack Lait

... with Slip-Along making the buckboard skid on the uneven trail as though he were playing a game of crack-the-whip with that frightened Indian. And I just as promptly took up my search again, forgetting about the Twins, forgetting ...

— The Prairie Mother • Arthur Stringer

Words linked to "Skid" : submarine, slew, elevate, board, side-slip, chute, glide, bring up, sloping trough, sideslip, drum brake, restraint, skidder, plank, slide, raise, skid row, brake shoe, slideway, lift, coast, get up, brake, slue, brake lining, constraint