skidder

[ skid-er ]

noun
  1. a person or thing that skids.

  2. Machinery. a type of four-wheel tractor equipped with a grapple, used to haul logs or timber, especially over rough terrain.

  1. Slang.

    • a person who is moving toward or has reached a less desirable status, condition, etc.

    • a vagrant who lives on the streets or frequents skid row.

Origin of skidder

1
First recorded in 1865–70; skid + -er1

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How to use skidder in a sentence

  • No trees shall be left lodged in the woods, and none shall be overlooked by the skidders or haulers.

  • And in the woods I have hundreds of swampers, skidders, and sawyers who will always be swampers, skidders and sawyers.

    The Promise | James B. Hendryx
  • The sawyers, the swampers, the skidders, and the team men turned and put on their heavy blanket coats.

    The Blazed Trail | Stewart Edward White