| slovo | definícia |
Side slip
(gcide) | Side slip \Side slip\
See Skid, below.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.] |
side slip
(gcide) | Skid \Skid\ (sk[i^]d), n. [Icel. sk[imac][eth] a billet of wood.
See Shide.] [Written also skeed.]
1. 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.
[1913 Webster]
2. A piece of timber used as a support, or to receive
pressure. Specifically:
(a) pl. (Naut.) Large fenders hung over a vessel's side to
protect it in handling a cargo. --Totten.
(b) 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.
(c) One of a pair of horizontal rails or timbers for
supporting anything, as a boat, a barrel, etc.
[1913 Webster]
3. (Aeronautics) A runner (one or two) under some flying
machines, used for landing.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
4. 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.
[PJC]
5. pl. Declining fortunes; a movement toward defeat or
downfall; -- used mostly in the phrase
on the skids and
hit the skids.
[PJC]
6. [From the v.] Act of skidding; -- called also side slip.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.] |
| | podobné slovo | definícia |
side slip
(gcide) | Side slip \Side slip\
See Skid, below.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]Skid \Skid\ (sk[i^]d), n. [Icel. sk[imac][eth] a billet of wood.
See Shide.] [Written also skeed.]
1. 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.
[1913 Webster]
2. A piece of timber used as a support, or to receive
pressure. Specifically:
(a) pl. (Naut.) Large fenders hung over a vessel's side to
protect it in handling a cargo. --Totten.
(b) 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.
(c) One of a pair of horizontal rails or timbers for
supporting anything, as a boat, a barrel, etc.
[1913 Webster]
3. (Aeronautics) A runner (one or two) under some flying
machines, used for landing.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
4. 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.
[PJC]
5. pl. Declining fortunes; a movement toward defeat or
downfall; -- used mostly in the phrase
on the skids and
hit the skids.
[PJC]
6. [From the v.] Act of skidding; -- called also side slip.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.] |
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