skidder

skid·der

(skĭd′ər)

a. One that skids: a sports car that was a real skidder.

b. One that makes use of a skid.

2. A heavy, four-wheel tractor used to haul logs, especially over rugged terrain.

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skidder

(ˈskɪdə)

1. (Forestry) a vehicle used for skidding logs

2. (Forestry) a lumberman who skids logs

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skid•der

(ˈskɪd ər)

n.

1. a person or thing that skids or employs a skid.

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

[1865–70]

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Noun	1.	skidder - a person who slips or slides because of loss of traction slider, slipper individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul - a human being; "there was too much for one person to do" snowboarder - someone who slides down snow-covered slopes while standing on a snowboard
	2.	skidder - a worker who uses a skid to move logs worker - a person who works at a specific occupation; "he is a good worker"
	3.	skidder - a tractor used to haul logs over rough terrain tractor - a wheeled vehicle with large wheels; used in farming and other applications

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Skidder jumped and strewed the floor with cigarette stubs at the rap on his door.

Skidder got very busy erasing the tall, black-haired heroine from his latest (unproduced) play and inserting a small, roguish one with heavy, bright hair and vivacious features.

Skidder to himself, putting his feet up against the lambrequins and disappearing in a cloud of smoke like an aerial cuttlefish.

Skidder, who had cast her in his mind for the star part in a private, romantic (unspoken) drama in real life.

Skidder's door as he was red-inking a stage direction for Myrtle Delorme (Miss Leeson) in his (unaccepted) comedy, to "pirouette across stage from L to the side of the Count." Up the carpeted ladder she crawled at last and opened the door of the skylight room.

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It also lets the skidder know where the wood is at on the ground ...

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The Massey team includes a company foreman/mechanic, a feller buncher operator, two skidder operators, two loader operators, and five truck drivers.

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The skidder was a Tigercat 630D equipped with an oversized grapple.

High tonnage harvesting and skidding for loblolly pine energy plantations

We utilize our 8N to pull a five-foot brush-hog, a 16-foot tandem trailer, a round hay bale buggy, a five-foot grader blade, a five-foot tandem disc-harrow and a homemade pine-log skidder. It's a versatile little tractor, definitely.