Hypertext Webster Gateway: "skate"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Skate \Skate\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Skated}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Skating}.]
To move on skates.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Skate \Skate\, n. [Icel. skata; cf. Prov. G. schatten,
meer-schatten, L. squatus, squatina, and E. shad.] (Zo["o]l.)
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.
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 ({R. l[ae]vis}) is also a large
species, often becoming three or four feet across. The
common spiny skate ({R. erinacea}) is much smaller.
{Skate's egg}. See {Sea purse}.
{Skate sucker}, any marine leech of the genus {Pontobdella},
parasitic on skates.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Skate \Skate\, 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.
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}.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
skate
n 1: sports equipment that is worn on the feet to enable the
wearer to glide along on wheels and to be propelled by
the alternate actions of the legs
2: large edible rays having a long snout and thick tail with
pectoral fins continuous with the head; swim by undulating
the edges of the pectoral fins
v : move along on skates; "The Dutch often skate along the
canals in winter"
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