Large fenders hung over a vessel's side to protect it in handling a cargo.

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

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.

Refers to planks placed under a box, crate or piece of machinery to enable the piece to be easily handled by a mechanical lifting device. Battens, or a series of parallel runners, fitted beneath boxes or packages to raise them clear of the floor to permit easy access of forklift blades or other handling equipment.

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.

One of a pair of timbers or bars, usually arranged so as to form an inclined plane, as form a wagon to a door, along which anything is moved by sliding or rolling.

Act of skidding; -- called also side slip.

To check with a skid, as wagon wheels.

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

Short-distance moving of logs or felled trees from the stump to a point of loading.

To pull logs from the stump to a landing.

to drag logs or tree lengths either wholly or partially on the ground.

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

One of a pair of horizontal rails or timbers for supporting anything, as a boat, a barrel, etc.

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

A solid piece of timber that fits under a building in place of a footings or foundation making the building able to be moved.