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skate |
4 definitions found 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 1.6 [wn]: skate n 1: worn on the feet to enable the wearer to glide along propelled by the alternate actions of the legs [syn: {skates}] 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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