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.
Skate, v. i. [imp. & p.
p. Skated; p. pr. & vb. n.
Skating.] To move on skates.
Skate, n. [Icel. skata; cf. Prov.
G. schatten, meer-schatten, L. squatus,
squatina, and E. shad.] (Zoöl.) 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.
&fist; 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.
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.
Skate, v. i. [imp. & p.
p. Skated; p. pr. & vb. n.
Skating.] To move on skates.
Skate, n. [Icel. skata; cf. Prov.
G. schatten, meer-schatten, L. squatus,
squatina, and E. shad.] (Zoöl.) 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.
&fist; 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.
