skid road

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The horse team and skid road is used in a small timber where poles and piling are being marketed.

From Motor Truck Logging Methods Engineering Experiment Station Series, Bulletin No. 12 by Knapp, Frederick Malcolm

Then with oaths and the sound of rent underwood a yoke of mighty bulls would swing down a "skid" road, hauling a forty-foot log along a rudely made slide.

From From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel by Kipling, Rudyard

Then, with oaths and the sound of rent underwood, a yoke of mighty bulls would swing down a "skid" road, hauling a forty-foot log along a rudely made slide.

From American Notes by Kipling, Rudyard

Yes, I know my days are numbered, all the signs to me are plain: I shall never guide the movements of the skid road boys again.

From By Trench and Trail in Song and Story by MacKay, Angus