Skid

A shoe or clog, as of iron, attached to a chain, and placed under the wheel of a wagon to prevent its turning when descending a steep hill; a drag; a skidpan; also, by extension, a hook attached to a chain, and used for the same purpose.

A piece of timber used as a support, or to receive pressure.(Naut.)

A runner (one or two) under some flying machines, used for landing.(Aeronautics)

A low movable platform for supporting heavy items to be transported, typically of two layers, and having a space between the layers into which the fork of a fork lift can be inserted; it is used to conveniently transport heavy objects by means of a fork lift; -- a skid without wheels is the same as a pallet. See: pallet

Declining fortunes; a movement toward defeat or downfall; -- used mostly in the phrase on the skids and hit the skids.

Act of skidding; -- called also side slip. Also: side slip

To protect or support with a skid or skids; also, to cause to move on skids.

To check with a skid, as wagon wheels.

To haul (logs) to a skid and load on a skidway.(Forestry)

To slide without rotating; -- said of a wheel held from turning while the vehicle moves onward.

To fail to grip the roadway; specif., to slip sideways on the road; to side-slip; -- said esp. of a cycle or automobile.