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Found 5 hits - Term: skate, Database: *, Strategy: exact
[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
skate \skate\, v. i. imp.  p. p. skated; p. pr.  vb. n.
   skating.
   to move on skates.
   1913 webster
see also:
skated skating 
[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
skate \skate\, n. 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.
   1913 webster

   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 raia laevis is also a large
         species, often becoming three or four feet across. the
         common spiny skate raia erinacea is much smaller.
         1913 webster

   skate's egg. see sea purse.

   skate sucker, any marine leech of the genus pontobdella,
      parasitic on skates.
      1913 webster
see also:
raia raia batis raia laevis raia erinacea skate's egg sea purse 
skate sucker pontobdella 
[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
skate \skate\ sk=at, 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.
   1913 webster

         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.
   1913 webster

   roller skate. see under roller.
      1913 webster
see also:
scatches roller skate roller 
[4] : WordNet (r) 2.0
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"

[5] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
35 moby thesaurus words for "skate":
   reptilia, bloke, boy, buck, chap, coast, fellow, flit, flow, fly,
   gent, gentleman, glide, glissade, guy, ice skates, ice-skate, man,
   roller skates, roller-skate, sail, sideslip, skateboard, skates,
   ski, skid, skim, sled, sleigh, slide, slip, slither, snowshoes,
   sweep, toboggan





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