skate

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  1. noun An ice skate.
  2. noun A roller skate.
  3. noun A skateboard.
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  • Just thought I'd point out that if you bring the kids for a skate, strap a noggin bucket on 'em. —  Toytown Germany - Germany feed
  • Halfway through the skate, the team had a shootout, which was showcased by some highlight reel goals, but after that, players sort of went off on their own, some leaving, some shooting around, some simply standing and chatting at center ice. —  College Hockey News from CHN
  • They didn't skate, they didn't hit, they didn't work, and what shots they took seemed to be carefully aimed at the logo on Roloson's jersey, not that there was anyone within a zip code of getting a rebound had one been available. —  The Peerless Prognosticator
  • Thirty minutes into the sequel and she's already up to her old tricks, somehow lining her tight jeans with a roller-skate, a bikini, a boat oar, an ice bucket and some marzipan potatoes. —  Computer And Video Games
  • A goaltender making a save with his skate isn't that big a deal. —  Islanders Top Stories
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  1. From Dutch schaats, stilt, skate (taken as pl.), from Middle Dutch schaetse, from Old North French escache, stilt, perhaps of Germanic origin.
  2. Middle English scate, from Old Norse skata.
  3. Perhaps alteration of dialectal skite, contemptible person; see blatherskite.

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  1. Formerly also scate; from Middle English scate, schate, from Icelandic Norwegian skata, a skate; cf. Irish Gael, sgat, a skate (from English); whether these forms are from Late Latin squatus, Latin squatina, a kind of shark, the angel-fish, is not clear.
  2. Formerly also scate; a later form, assumed as the singular of the supposed plural skates, also written skeates, scheets, the proper singular, from Dutch schaats, plural schaatsen, earlier schaetsen, skates (schaatsrijder, a ‘skate-rider,’ skater) (cf. Danish sköite, a skate, from D. or English); a later use of Old Dutch and Old Flemish schaetse, a high-heeled shoe, later Old French eschace, eschasse, French échasse, a stilt, trestle, Middle Latin scacia, scatia, a stilt: see scatches. Cf. Icelandic īs-leggir, ‘ice-bones,’ shin-bones of sheep used for skates; and see skee, skid.
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