skidder

Meanings

Plural: skidders

Noun

• a person who slips or slides because of loss of traction
• a worker who uses a skid to move logs
• a tractor used to haul logs over rough terrain
• One who travels with a skidding motion.
• One who moves something by the use of a skid.
• a vehicle for pulling trees out of a forest.
• The foreman of a construction gang making a skid road.

Synonyms

slider, slipper