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Webster 1913 Edition
Skate
Skate
(skāt)
, Noun.
[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.
Batavia rushes forth; and as they sweep,
On sounding
In circling poise, swift as the winds, along,
The then gay land is maddened all to joy.
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
.Skate
,Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Skated
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Skating
.] To move on skates.
Skate
,Noun.
[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. ☞ 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. Skate’s egg
. See
– Sea purse
. Skate sucker
, any marine leech of the genus
Pontobdella
, parasitic on skates.Webster 1828 Edition
Skate
SKATE
,Noun.
SKATE
,Verb.
I.
SKATE
,Noun.