skid road

Definition of Skid Road in English :

1. skid road

the district of a town frequented by loggers

2. skid road

a road made of logs on which freshly cut timber can be hauled

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Skid Road

noun (in the US and Canada)

1.

a track made of a set of logs laid transversely on which freshly cut timber can be hauled

2.

a.

(in the West) the part of a town frequented by loggers

b. another term for skid row

1.

in lumbering, a trail along which newly cut logs are skidded

2.

a. West

a section of town where loggers gathered in taverns, inns, etc.

b.

skid row

n.

1. A track made of logs laid transversely about five feet apart that is used to haul logs to a loading platform or a mill.

2. Slang Skid row.