Category:Skate

Skate, n. Etym: [d. schaats. Cf. Scatches.]

Defn: 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 maddended all to joy. Thomson. Roller skate. See under roller.

Skate Skate, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Skated; p. pr. & vb. n. Skating.]

Defn: to move on skates.

Skate Skate, n. Etym: [icel. skata; cf. Prov. G. schatten, meer-schatten, L. squatus, squatina, and e. shad.] (zoöl.)

Defn: 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. lævis) 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.