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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
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.
A sort or shoe furnished with a smooth iron for sliding on ice.

SKATE

,
Verb.
I.
To slide or move on skates.

SKATE

,
Noun.
[L. squatus, squatina.] A fish of the ray kind, (Raia Batis;) called the variegated ray-fish, It is a flat fish, the largest and thinnest of the genus, some of them weighing nearly two hundred pounds.

Definition 2024


skatē

skatē

See also: skate, Skate, and skaté

Latvian

Noun

skatē f

  1. locative singular form of skate