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What is the noun for skidded?

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skid
  1. An out-of-control sliding motion as would result from applying the brakes too hard in a car.
  2. 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.
  3. (by extension) A hook attached to a chain, used for the same purpose.
  4. A piece of timber or other material used as a support, or to receive pressure.
    1. A runner of a sled.
    2. A ski-shaped runner or supporting surface as found on a helicopter or other aircraft in place of wheels.
    3. A basic platform for the storage and transport of goods, machinery or equipment, later developed into the pallet.
    4. (plural) Large fenders hung over a vessel's side to protect it when handling cargo.
    5. One of a pair of horizontal rails or timbers for supporting anything, such as a boat or barrel.
  5. Synonyms:
skidder
  1. Agent noun of skid; one who skids.
  2. (engineering) a vehicle for pulling trees out of a forest.
  3. The foreman of a construction gang making a skid road.
  4. Examples:
    1. “Giving the driver a nod, the truck gunned it, and sped back onto the more secure skidder tail.”
      “Then, when the girl had gone, and the glass door closed behind her, he turned heavily and gazed at skidder some more.”
      “On sites accessible to a bulldozer or a skidder, equipping the machines with a scarification rake permits rapid, shallow scalping of the area.”
skidding
  1. The motion of something that skids.
skiddings
  1. plural of skidding
skidders
  1. plural of skidder
  2. Examples:
    1. “Ubiquitous through the rest of Canada, full-tree systems with their skidders and slashers are more rare in Newfoundland than hot summer days.”
      “It stayed that way for a decade, using bunchers, skidders, delimbers and slashers to bring ready-to-saw material out of the bush.”
      “Industry turned from the manufacture of tanks and other war materiel to the manufacture of log skidders, Caterpillar tractors, and chainsaws.”
skids
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