From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Skate \Skate\ (sk[=a]t), n. [D. schaats. Cf. Scatches.]
A metallic runner with a frame shaped to fit the sole of a
shoe, -- made to be fastened under the foot, and used for
moving rapidly on ice.
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Batavia rushes forth; and as they sweep,
On sounding skates, a thousand different ways,
In circling poise, swift as the winds, along,
The then gay land is maddened all to joy. --Thomson.
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Roller skate. See under Roller.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Skate \Skate\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Skated; p. pr. & vb. n.
Skating.]
To move on skates.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Skate \Skate\, n. [Icel. skata; cf. Prov. G. schatten,
meer-schatten, L. squatus, squatina, and E. shad.] (Zool.)
Any one of numerous species of large, flat elasmobranch
fishes of the genus Raia, having a long, slender tail,
terminated by a small caudal fin. The pectoral fins, which
are large and broad and united to the sides of the body and
head, give a somewhat rhombic form to these fishes. The skin
is more or less spinose.
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Note: Some of the species are used for food, as the European
blue or gray skate (Raia batis), which sometimes
weighs nearly 200 pounds. The American smooth, or
barn-door, skate (Raia laevis) is also a large
species, often becoming three or four feet across. The
common spiny skate (Raia erinacea) is much smaller.
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Skate's egg. See Sea purse.
Skate sucker, any marine leech of the genus Pontobdella,
parasitic on skates.
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