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Meanings of skidder in inglés

A person who slips or slides because of loss of traction.

Usage of skidder in inglés
1
In the South a complicated machine called a steam skidder, Fig.
Handwork in Wood
2
WITH the purchase of a second skidder, the men now worked on two fronts.
Serena
3
Between bites of sandwiches, they discussed whether buying a second hi-lead skidder would be worth the extra cost.
Serena
4
I need to get that second skidder up and running Sunday morning, but I could join you in the afternoon.
Serena
5
There had been no insurance, other than what Stanchfield had been obliged to carry on his Jimmy and his skidder.
Bag of Bones
6
Rovers made it four in the 65th minute when Liam Shephard watched his skidder bounce up and over Julian from an Elliott Frear cross.
BBC
7
He shifted Stromberg and Fallon to the sawing crew, made a skidder out of a swamper, and filled his place with a grub-shack flunky.
The Promise / A Tale of the Great Northwest
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Snipes believed that if the skidder crew got a break his men should as well, so they sat on the logs they'd just cut.
Serena
9
There's a church here- aMethodistor some other kind-witha parson named Skidder.
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10
But Skidder says he has 'em in the fold.'
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The sawyers, the swampers, the skidders, and the team men turned and put on their heavy blanket coats.
The Blazed Trail
12
And the poor little coward had skiddered away, and slept in a furze rick, till famine drove him home.
Slain By The Doones
13
And in the woods I have hundreds of swampers, skidders, and sawyers who will always be swampers, skidders and sawyers.
The Promise / A Tale of the Great Northwest
14
"The boy killed yesterday by that skidder boom," Ross said.
Serena
Skidder through the time