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Entry 3 senses · 3 variants Webster, 1913

Skate

/(skāt)/ · IPA /skeɪt/
01 n. 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.
  1. 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.
Phrases & compounds
Roller skate — See under Roller.
02 v. i. To move on skates.
imp. & p. p. Skated; p. pr. & vb. n. Skating
  1. 1.
    To move on skates.
03 n. Any one of numerous species of large, flat elasmobranch fishes of the genus Raia, having a long, slender tail, terminated by a small caudal…
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    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.(Zool.)
Phrases & compounds
Skate's egg — See Sea purse.
Skate sucker — any marine leech of the genus Pontobdella, parasitic on skates.