skidded
skidded is the simple past and past participle of skid.
Meaning of skid
Verb
skid (third-person singular simple present skids, present participle skidding, simple past and past participle skidded)
- (of a wheel, sled runner, or vehicle tracks) To slide along the ground, without the rotary motion that wheels or tracks would normally have.
- To slide in an uncontrolled manner as in a car with the brakes applied too hard, the wheels sliding with limited spinning.
- They skidded around the corner and accelerated up the street.
- To operate an aircraft in a banked sideslip with the nose yawed towards the low wing.
- Don't use excessive rudder when turning, especially at low airspeed, as this causes your plane to skid through the turn, which can cause you to very rapidly enter a spin if the inner wing stalls.
- To protect or support with a skid or skids.
- To cause to move on skids.
- To check or halt (wagon wheels, etc.) with a skid.
- The horses stopped to breathe again, and the guard got down to skid the wheel for the descent, and open the coach-door to let the passengers in1859, Charles Dickens, “The Mail”, in A Tale of Two Cities, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, book I (Recalled to Life), page 4
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- Skidded is the simple past and past participle of skid.
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