Skate

Definition of Skate

Pronunciation: skāt
n.1.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.
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.
Roller skate
See under Roller.
v. i.1.To move on skates.
[imp. & p. p. Skated; p. pr. & vb. n. Skating.]
n.1.(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.
Skate's egg
See Sea purse.
Skate sucker
any marine leech of the genus Pontobdella, parasitic on skates.

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Reptilia, bloke, boy, buck, chap, coast, fellow, flit, flow, fly, gent, gentleman, glide, glissade, guy, ice skates, ice-skate, man, roller skates, roller-skate, sail, sideslip, skateboard, skates, ski, skid, skim, sled, sleigh, slide, slip, slither, snowshoes, sweep, toboggan
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