skidder
[ skid-er ]
noun
a person or thing that skids.
Machinery. a type of four-wheel tractor equipped with a grapple, used to haul logs or timber, especially over rough terrain.
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
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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. HendryxThe sawyers, the swampers, the skidders, and the team men turned and put on their heavy blanket coats.
The Blazed Trail | Stewart Edward White
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