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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

skate
    n 1: sports equipment that is worn on the feet to enable the
         wearer to glide along 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 1: move along on skates; "The Dutch often skate along the
         canals in winter"

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Skate \Skate\ (sk[=a]t), 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.
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         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.
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   Roller skate. See under Roller.
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3. 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.
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4. 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.
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   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.
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   Skate's egg. See Sea purse.

   Skate sucker, any marine leech of the genus Pontobdella,
      parasitic on skates.
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