sideways

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When the breakfast was over the crew were set to making skidways and travoy roads on eight.

From The Blazed Trail by White, Stewart Edward

Several acres had been cut off, and skidways built up for more extensive operations, probably for that very season.

From Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders in the Great North Woods by Flower, Jessie Graham [pseud.]

A constant stream of logs flowed down it on the big-bunked sleighs, draining the skidways, which were continually replenished by more logs travoyed out of the woods.

From The Boss of Wind River by Chisholm, A. M. (Arthur Murray)

An unprecedented thaw set in, ruining the skidways and reducing the snow of the forest to a sodden slush that chilled men to the bone as they floundered heavily about their work.

From The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest by Hendryx, James B. (James Beardsley)

Afar off, logs were sliding in swift succession down the skidways, to lose themselves in the waters, then to bob along toward the current that would carry them to the flume.

From The White Desert by Fischer, Anton Otto