skidding

Verb

skid (third-person singular simple present skids, present participle skidding, simple past and past participle skidded)

1. (intransitive) (of a wheel, sled runner, or vehicle tracks) To slide along the ground, without the rotary motion that wheels or tracks would normally have.
2. (intransitive) 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.
3. (intransitive, transitive) 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.
4. (transitive) To protect or support with a skid or skids.
5. (transitive) To cause to move on skids.
6. (transitive) 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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