skaten.1
/skeɪt/, U.S. /skeɪt/ 1.
a. A fish of the genus Raia; esp. the common species Raia batis, a very large, flat, cartilaginous fish much used for food.
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the world > animals > fish > subclass Elasmobranchii > order Hypotremata > [noun] > family Rajidae > member of genus Raia (skate)
skatec1340
flathec1440
maid1569
maid-fish1665
flair1668
maiden-skatea1795
skate maid1836
tinker1836
flapper-skate1839
roker1860
rajoid1890
the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > seafood > [noun] > fish > skate
thornbackc1300
skatec1340
thorn-but1668
thorny-back1811
thornback ray1862
α.
β. 1538 T. Elyot Dict. Raia, a see fysshe called Raye or skete.1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 13 Mony kyndes of fische, cheiflie in thrie, Killine, Skait, and Makrell.1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 439 The fresh gall of a Ray or Skeat..is an excellent medicine for the eares.1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 213 One fish like to a Skate we caught.1701 C. Wooley Two Years Jrnl. N.-Y. 95 In shape like a Skate or Flare as we call them in Cambridge.1752 J. Hill Gen. Nat. Hist. III. 308 The variegated Raia, with the middle of the back smooth.., The Skaite.1836 W. Yarrell Hist. Brit. Fishes II. 422 There is reason to believe that the true Skate produces its young later in the season than either the Thornback or the Homelyn.1884 G. B. Goode in G. B. Goode et al. Fisheries U.S.: Sect. I 667 Of the Skates, Raiidæ, there are five species on our Atlantic coast.c1340 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1898) I. 36 j Schat.
c1340 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1898) I. 36 10 schat.
?1375 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1898) I. 46 In 7 scates.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 443/1 Scate, fysche, ragadies.
?a1500 Nominale (Yale Beinecke 594) in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 764/39 Hic garus, a schate.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 266/1 Scate fysshe, raye.
1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Civv/2 A Scate, fishe, batis, raia.
1601 R. Chester Loves Martyr 100 The Scate, the Roch, the Tench, and pretie Wrincle.
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 119 Yet is it commonly contrived out of the skins of Thornebacks, Scaites or Maids. View more context for this quotation
1737 in J. Colville Ochtertyre House Bk. of Accomps (1907) 27 For scate and flounders [£]0. 0. 7.
1800 P. Colquhoun Treat. Commerce & Police R. Thames xv. 440 Haddock, Scate, fresh Ling.
b. With distinguishing adjectives.
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1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Raye estelée, the starrie Skate.
1668 W. Charleton Onomasticon Zoicon 130 Raia Fullonica,..the Fuller-Scate.
1668 W. Charleton Onomasticon Zoicon 130 Spinosa,..the Card-scate.
1836 W. Yarrell Hist. Brit. Fishes II. 421 The Skate. Blue Skate, and Grey Skate, Scotland.
1882 D. S. Jordan & C. H. Gilbert Synopsis Fishes N. Amer. 40 Raia erinacea, Common Skate; Little Skate. Raia ocellata,..Big Skate.
1883 Official Catal. Internat. Fisheries Exhib. (ed. 4) 104 Crab-eating Skate, Rhina Skate.
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the world > animals > fish > subclass Elasmobranchii > order Pleurotremata > [noun] > angel-fish or monk-fish
monkfish1582
sea-monk1611
sea-devil1634
kingston1666
angelfish1668
skate1668
piper1673
mermaid fish1738
fiddle-fish1748
fiddler1750
monk1756
angel shark1776
shark-ray1836
puppy-fish1880
squat1884
sea-angel1891
1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. 133 Scate, Angel-fish.
1681 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis i. v. i. 96 The Scate, or Angel-Fish.
Compounds
C1. General attributive.
skate-fish n.
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1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. O4v Like restie bacon, or a dride scate-fish.
a1801 R. Gall Poems & Songs (1819) 69 Our wames e'en to our rigging-bane Like skate-fish clapping.
skate-liver oil n.
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1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Skate-liver oil, a fish oil often sold for the same purposes as cod-liver oil.
skate soup n.
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1710 P. Lamb Royal Cookery 25 Scate or Thornback-Soupe.
skate-tailed adj.
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1714 Philos. Trans. 1713 (Royal Soc.) 28 181 Scate-tail'd Sicilian Amaranth.
skate-toothed adj.
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1836 W. Yarrell Hist. Brit. Fishes II. 393 The..Skate-toothed shark.
1880–4 F. Day Fishes Great Brit. & Ireland II. 296 Smooth-hound,..skate-toothed dog, in allusion to its dentition.
C2.
skate-barrow n. the egg-case of a skate.
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the world > animals > fish > subclass Elasmobranchii > order Hypotremata > [noun] > family Rajidae > member of genus Raia (skate) > part
mermaid's purse1700
sea-pincushion1799
skate-rumple1823
sea purse1836
skate-barrow1851
sea-barrow1860
mermaid's-egg1890
1851 H. D. Thoreau Jrnl. 27 July (1990) III. 341 Scates-eggs, called in England scate-barrows from their form on the sand.
1884 Evang. Mag. Aug. 344 The so-called ‘Mermaid's-Purses’..the fishermen call..‘Skate-barrers’.
skate-bread n. (see quot. 1681).
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the world > animals > fish > unspecified types > [noun]
whalec950
tumbrelc1300
sprout1340
squame1393
codmop1466
whitefish1482
lineshark?a1500
salen1508
glaucus1509
bretcock1522
warcodling1525
razor1530
bassinatc1540
goldeney1542
smy1552
maiden1555
grail1587
whiting1587
needle1589
pintle-fish1591
goldfish1598
puffin fish1598
quap1598
stork1600
black-tail1601
ellops1601
fork-fish1601
sea-grape1601
sea-lizard1601
sea-raven1601
barne1602
plosher1602
whale-mouse1607
bowman1610
catfish1620
hog1620
kettle-fish1630
sharpa1636
carda1641
housewifea1641
roucotea1641
ox-fisha1642
sea-serpent1646
croaker1651
alderling1655
butkin1655
shamefish1655
yard1655
sea-dart1664
sea-pelican1664
Negro1666
sea-parrot1666
sea-blewling1668
sea-stickling1668
skull-fish1668
whale's guide1668
sennet1671
barracuda1678
skate-bread1681
tuck-fish1681
swallowtail1683
piaba1686
pit-fish1686
sand-creeper1686
horned hog1702
soldier1704
sea-crowa1717
bran1720
grunter1726
calcops1727
bennet1731
bonefish1734
Negro fish1735
isinglass-fish1740
orb1740
gollin1747
smelt1776
night-walker1777
water monarch1785
hardhead1792
macaw-fish1792
yellowback1796
sea-raven1797
blueback1812
stumpnose1831
flat1847
butterfish1849
croppie1856
gubbahawn1857
silt1863
silt-snapper1863
mullet-head1866
sailor1883
hogback1893
skipper1898
stocker1904
1681 in W. Macfarlane Geogr. Coll. Scotl. (1908) III. 191 Skatebread, which is a small fish, an inch and a half long.
skate-leech n. a leech which infests the skate.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Annelida > [noun] > class Hirudinea > member of genus Pontobdella
sea-leecha1682
skate-suckera1832
skate-leech1882
1882 Encycl. Brit. XIV. 404 The best-known example is the skate-leech (Pontobdella muricata, L.), which is olive-coloured and dusted with whitish grains.
skate maid n. (see maid n.1 8).
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the world > animals > fish > subclass Elasmobranchii > order Hypotremata > [noun] > family Rajidae > member of genus Raia (skate)
skatec1340
flathec1440
maid1569
maid-fish1665
flair1668
maiden-skatea1795
skate maid1836
tinker1836
flapper-skate1839
roker1860
rajoid1890
1836 W. Yarrell Hist. Brit. Fishes II. 422 Fishermen distinguish the females..by the names of Skate Maid, Thornback Maid, and Homelyn Maid.
skate-rumple n. the hinder quarters of a skate.
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the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > seafood > [noun] > fish > cuts or parts of fish
jowlc1430
randa1432
poll1526
tailpiece1601
cod sound1699
fillet1725
shark-fin1793
skate-rumple1823
steak1883
flitch1884
shark's fin1933
toro1971
the world > animals > fish > subclass Elasmobranchii > order Hypotremata > [noun] > family Rajidae > member of genus Raia (skate) > part
mermaid's purse1700
sea-pincushion1799
skate-rumple1823
sea purse1836
skate-barrow1851
sea-barrow1860
mermaid's-egg1890
1823 W. Scott St. Ronan's Well I. iii. 64 [An] auld fule.., that may hae some judgment in cock-bree or in scate-rumples.
skate-shears n. (see quot. 1810).
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1810 P. Neill List of Fishes 27 (Jam.) The male..possesses long sharp-edged appendages on the lower part of his body..; and fishers call these appendages skate-sheers.
skate-sucker n. = skate-leech n.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Annelida > [noun] > class Hirudinea > member of genus Pontobdella
sea-leecha1682
skate-suckera1832
skate-leech1882
a1832 Encycl. Metrop. (1845) XX. 289/1 The type of the genus is Hirudo muricata, Lin., well known to fishermen under the name of Skate~sucker.
1882 Cassell's Nat. Hist. VI. 242 The Skate~sucker belongs to the genus Pontobdella.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
skaten.2
/skeɪt/, U.S. /skeɪt/ 1.
a.
(a) A device consisting of a steel blade mounted in a wooden sole, and fixed to the boot by means of a screw and straps, used for the purpose of gliding over ice; in later use a similar device made entirely of steel and clamped, strapped, or otherwise attached to the boot. Chiefly used in plural.The blades are of varying length and curved or rounded at the toe.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > winter sports > skating > [noun] > skate
patten1617
scrick-shoe1659
skate1662
ice skate1786
sketcher1790
the steels1875
α.
β. 1662 S. Pepys Diary 1 Dec. (1970) III. 272 Over the parke (where I first in my life..did see people sliding with their sckeates, which is a very pretty art).1684 J. Evelyn Diary (1955) IV. 362 Sleds, sliding with skeetes.1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory (1905) iii. xx. 239/2 A Dutch Skite, this is a kind of wooden paten.1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 484 What to term them I know not, (except Dutch skits, to Slide withal).figurative.1716 E. Baynard Health 20 Life's silent Minutes (on smooth Skeets) slide by.1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck Rijdt-schoenen, riding shoes upon yce, called in Holland Schates.]
1684 Blanket-fair (single sheet) The Rotterdam Dutchman with fleet cutting Scates.
1688 W. Carr Remarks Govt. Germanie 113 The nimble Duchmen on their Scatses.
1701 C. Wooley Two Years Jrnl. N.-Y. 92 Upon the Ice its admirable to see Men and Women as it were flying upon their Skates from place to place.
1710 J. Swift Jrnl. to Stella 31 Jan. (1948) I. 178 Rosamond's Pond full of the rabble sliding and with skates, if you know what those are.
1777 R. Watson Hist. Reign Philip II I. xii. 370 The Hollanders transport themselves..over the ice, with scates.
1806 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life I. iii. 46 Learning to cut the outside edge, on skaits that have no edge to cut with.
1856 ‘Stonehenge’ Man. Brit. Rural Sports 522/2 After seeing that the strap is properly crossed,..buckle it sufficiently tight to fasten the skate on securely.
1892 ‘F. Anstey’ Voces Populi 2nd Ser. 121 Several persons are having their skates put on.
(b) In slang (originally Military) phr. to get (or put) one's skates on, to hurry up (see also quot. 1925).
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the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > swift movement in specific manner > move swiftly in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > move with urgent speed
rempeOE
fuseOE
rakeOE
hiec1175
i-fusec1275
rekec1275
hastec1300
pellc1300
platc1300
startc1300
buskc1330
rapc1330
rapec1330
skip1338
firk1340
chase1377
raikc1390
to hie one's waya1400
catchc1400
start?a1505
spur1513
hasten1534
to make speed1548
post1553
hurry1602
scud1602
curry1608
to put on?1611
properate1623
post-haste1628
whirryc1630
dust1650
kite1854
to get a move on1888
to hump it1888
belt1890
to get (or put) one's skates on1895
hotfoot1896
to rattle one's dags1968
shimmy1969
1895 W. C. Gore in Inlander Dec. 113 Get your skates on, hurry up.
1919 War Slang in Athenæum 8 Aug. 727/2 To evade duty or get clear, you ‘put your skates on’.
1925 E. Fraser & J. Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 260 Skates, to put on, to hurry up. Also to evade duty. To desert.
1938 F. D. Sharpe Sharpe of Flying Squad xxvi. 263 ‘Jack, guy for your b—— life. The Squad are here.’.. Said Jack: ‘I very soon put my skates on.’
1969 G. Lyall Venus with Pistol ix. 54 It was Carlos telling me to get my skates on and down to the Doelen plenty chop-chop.
1976 W. J. Burley Wycliffe & Schoolgirls i. 33 I'd better be getting my skates on, I'm catching the night train and I haven't done a thing about getting ready.
(c) = roller skate n.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > roller-skating > [noun] > roller-skate
velocipede1825
roller skate1860
wheel-skate1870
skate1876
Rollerblade1985
1876 J. A. Harwood Rinks & Rollers iii. 39 The skates used had four wheels of iron placed in one line from the foot to the heel.
1925 Sears, Roebuck Catal. 751 Children's Extension Skates With Steel Self Contained Ball Bearing Rolls.
1959 Ice & Roller Skating 20 Wooden wheels are essential for rink skating and the skate should be screwed onto the boot by an expert.
1975 Man. Artistic Roller Skating 24 The change-of-edge..should be as short as possible, not materially longer than the length of the skate.
b. plural = ski n.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > winter sports > skiing > [noun] > ski
skate1698
ski1755
snow-shoe1864
1698 tr. A. Brand Jrnl. Embassy from Muscovy 57 They make use of Scates, by the help of which they pass over the Snow with great Agility.
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth II. 215 They make use of skates, which are made of fir, of near three feet long, and half a foot broad.
1820 W. Scoresby Acct. Arctic Regions I. 242 There is no difficulty in travelling over them, even without either snow skaits or sledges.
1849 [see Compounds 1]. c. U.S. A sledge runner.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicles according to means of motion > vehicle moving on runners > [noun] > runner of
runner1747
skate1781
hob1788
ox-runner1834
bob1857
1781 S. Peters Gen. Hist. Connecticut 320 In the winter, the sleigh is used; a vehicle..carrying six persons in its box, which hangs on four posts standing on two steel sliders, or large scates.
1907 St. Nicholas July 781/1 You make a framework of timbers..and stick a skate or runner at each corner.
d. transferred. A device with a set of rollers or wheels on which something moves; a device which can be placed under a heavy object to facilitate its movement.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicles according to means of motion > vehicle moving on wheels > [noun] > platform on wheels > with small low wheels
bogiec1817
truck frame1850
dolly1901
bummer1905
skate1905
1905 Engineering Rev. XIII. 103/1 The Dolter system..consists of a skate suspended from the under part of the car; this makes contact with a small iron block embedded in the road.
1940 Chambers's Techn. Dict. 774/2 Skate, sidetracking. (1) A device to move an aeroplane sideways on the ground, for manoeuvring in confined spaces, as when packing into sheds. (2) A shoe for slipping beneath the wheels for handling an aeroplane on soft snow.
1961 Daily Tel. 4 Oct. 15/2 An engineering firm has offered to supply skates for the Arch.
1961 Daily Tel. 4 Oct. 15/2 The skates, or tracked skids, are made of steel plates.
1972 Police Rev. 10 Nov. 1477/1 It appears that the ‘skates’ shown in..last week's Police Review (page 1405) would combat the above criticisms.
1976 Southern Evening Echo (Southampton) 18 Nov. 17/7 Terry Maine..invented a ‘skate’ to go under the damaged wheel—which enables the aircraft to be moved quickly into a hanger for repairs.
e. North American. A set of tackle for halibut-fishing, etc., used chiefly on the Pacific Coast of North America.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > [noun] > kind of
prick-tackle1463
ledger-tackle1653
fly-tackle1834
otter1834
bait-tackle1835
paternoster tackle1852
spinning-tackle1856
otter-line1862
traveller1864
skate1882
sea-ledger1887
otter1898
otter-board1901
ripper1925
salmon tackle-
1882 J. W. Collins in Fishermen's Own Bk. 96 We set twenty skates of trawl—the whole string.
1897 R. Kipling Captains Courageous iii. 75 ‘How many skates you reckon we'll need?’ ‘'Baout three. Hurry!’ ‘There's three-hundred fathom to each tub,’ Dan explained.
1960 M. Sharcott Place of Many Winds vii. 127 Either the night before or in the morning before the skates of gear are set they must be baited.
1960 M. Sharcott Place of Many Winds vii. 129 Trolling fishermen often curse the skates of halibut gear.
1972 F. Ford Atush Inlet ix. 85 The marker, then the anchor, then two-three hundred yards of halibut line with a baited hook every ten feet, then another anchor and a marker. That's a skate.
2. [ < skate v.] An act or spell of skating; one of a series of turns in figure-skating.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > winter sports > skating > [noun] > act or spell of
skate1853
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > winter sports > skating > [noun] > figure-skating > figure
skate1853
figure1854
1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. xxvi. 214 Took a skate this morning over some lakelets recently frozen over.
1860 All Year Round 14 Jan. 277 He ceases to complete his skates, he passes from one to the other too rapidly.
1889 Advance (Chicago) 11 Apr. 294 Bound for the smooth sheet of ice..for a skate.
Compounds
C1. skate-grinder, skate-lender, etc.
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1849 H. W. Longfellow Kavanagh xxviii In his imagination arose images of the Norwegian Skate-Runners.
1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Skate-maker, a manufacturer of iron sliding shoes.
1860 C. A. Collins Eye-witness vi. 84 What becomes of icemen and skate-lenders in summer?
1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2192/2 Skate-grinder, a machine for grinding skates.
C2. General attributive.
skate-blade n.
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1895 Outing 27 202/1 The skate-blades are fixed to plates which are screwed fast to heel and sole of the skating-boots.
skate-iron n.
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1838 J. H. Ingraham Burton I. x. 143 It was placed on runners sixteen inches high, shaped like skate-irons.
1868 B. J. Lossing Hudson (new ed.) 277 Three sled-runners, having skate-irons on their bottoms.
C3.
skate key n. a key for tightening roller-skates.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > screwdrivers, wrenches, spanners > [noun] > spanner or wrench > other spanners or wrenches
tap wrench1815
doghook1847
stock1862
stud box1867
socket wrench1905
Allen key1910
wheel brace1920
tongs1922
nut driver1939
spud wrench1939
torque wrench1948
nut runner1958
Mole1959
skate key1962
1962 ‘E. McBain’ Like Love xiv. 193 A little girl..was sitting on the steps tightening her skates with a skate key.
1977 Montgomery Ward Catal. Spring & Summer 509/1 Clamp-on sidewalk skates... Skate key included.
skatepark n. a park or rink for skateboarding.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > skateboarding > [noun] > place or track
skatepark1976
slalom1976
quarter pipe1978
vert1979
1976 N.Y. Times Mag. 12 Sept. 85/2 A $60,000 15 thousand-square-feet-of-concrete skatepark.
1977 Sunday Times 27 Nov. (Colour Suppl.) 27/4 Use purpose-built skate-parks as they have a variety of bowls and slaloms which allow you freedom to develop tricks away from other skaters and spectators.
skate-sail n. a sail rigged up on a skater's back so that the wind may carry him along.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > winter sports > skating > [adjective] > sail
skate-sail1882
1882 Standard 1 Dec. 5/4 Skimming over the frozen lakes by the aid of the Danish skate-sail.
skate-sailing n. the practice of skating with the aid of a skate-sail.
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1927 Daily Express 7 Mar. 12 Skate-sailing races in Sweden.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
skaten.3
/skeɪt/, U.S. /skeɪt/ slang (chiefly U.S.).
1. A poor, worn-out, decrepit horse.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > equus caballus or horse > [noun] > inferior or old and worn-out
brockc1000
stota1100
jadec1386
yaud?a1513
roila1529
tit1548
hilding1590
tireling1590
dog horsec1600
baffle1639
Rosinante1641
aver1691
keffel1699
runt1725
hack horse1760
rip1775
kadisha1817
dunghill1833
pelter1854
crow-bait1857
caster1859
plug1860
knacker1864
plug horse1872
crock1879
skate1894
robbo1897
1894 R. Kipling in Cent. Mag. Dec. 295/2 This yaller~backed skate comes to our pastur'.
1923 E. Hemingway Three Stories & Ten Poems 29 They'd kill that bunch of skates for their hides and hoofs up at Paris.
1929 S. Anderson in Mercury Story Bk. 233 I could have made a faster record than most of the skates of horses they had there.
1935 H. L. Davis Honey in Horn vi. 61 Joel Hardcastle's horses were underfed, badly shod, and skates.
1978 E. Tidyman Table Stakes i. iv. 68 The man was a gambler... A pony player. Used to bet thousands on the worst-looking skates you've ever seen.
2.
a. A mean or contemptible person. Esp. in cheapskate n.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > condition of being held in contempt > [noun] > state or quality of being contemptible > contemptible person
wormc825
wretchOE
thingOE
hinderlingc1175
harlot?c1225
mixa1300
villain1303
whelpc1330
wonnera1340
bismera1400
vilec1400
beasta1425
creaturec1450
dog bolt1465
fouling?a1475
drivel1478
shit1508
marmoset1523
mammeta1529
pilgarlica1529
pode1528
slave1537
slim1548
skit-brains?1553
grasshopper1556
scavenger1563
old boss1566
rag1566
shrub1566
ketterela1572
shake-rag1571
skybala1572
mumpsimus1573
smatchetc1582
squib1586
scabship1589
vassal1589
baboon1592
Gibraltar1593
polecat1593
mushroom1594
nodc1595
cittern-head1598
nit1598
stockfish1598
cum-twang1599
dish-wash1599
pettitoe1599
mustard-token1600
viliaco1600
cargo1602
stump1602
snotty-nose1604
sprat1605
wormling1605
brock1607
dogfly?1611
shag-rag1611
shack-rag1612
thrum1612
rabbita1616
fitchock1616
unworthy1616
baseling1618
shag1620
glow-worm1624
snip1633
the son of a worm1633
grousea1637
shab1637
wormship1648
muckworm1649
whiffler1659
prig1679
rotten egg1686
prigster1688
begged fool1693
hang-dog1693
bugger1694
reptile1697
squinny1716
snool1718
ramscallion1734
footer1748
jackass1756
hallion1789
skite1790
rattlesnake1791
snot1809
mudworm1814
skunk1816
stirrah1816
spalpeen1817
nyaff1825
skin1825
weed1825
tiger1827
beggar1834
despicability1837
squirt1844
prawn1845
shake1846
white mouse1846
scurf1851
sweep1853
cockroach1856
bummer1857
medlar1859
cunt1860
shuck1862
missing link1863
schweinhund1871
creepa1876
bum1882
trashbag1886
tinhorn1887
snot-rag1888
rodent1889
whelpling1889
pie eatera1891
mess1891
schmuck1892
fucker1893
cheapskate1894
cocksucker1894
gutter-bird1896
perisher1896
skate1896
schmendrick1897
nyamps1900
ullage1901
fink1903
onion1904
punk1904
shitepoke1905
tinhorn sport1906
streeler1907
zob1911
stink1916
motherfucker1918
Oscar1918
shitass1918
shit-face1923
tripe-hound1923
gimp1924
garbage can1925
twerp1925
jughead1926
mong1926
fuck?1927
arsehole1928
dirty dog1928
gazook1928
muzzler1928
roach1929
shite1929
mook1930
lug1931
slug1931
woodchuck1931
crud1932
dip1932
bohunkus1933
lint-head1933
Nimrod1933
warb1933
fuck-piga1935
owl-hoot1934
pissant1935
poot1935
shmegegge1937
motheree1938
motorcycle1938
squiff1939
pendejo1940
snotnose1941
jerkface1942
slag1943
yuck1943
fuckface?1945
fuckhead?1945
shit-head1945
shite-hawk1948
schlub1950
asswipe1953
mother1955
weenie1956
hard-on1958
rass hole1959
schmucko1959
bitch ass1961
effer1961
lamer1961
arsewipe1962
asshole1962
butthole1962
cock1962
dipshit1963
motherfuck1964
dork1965
bumhole1967
mofo1967
tosspot1967
crudball1968
dipstick1968
douche1968
frickface1968
schlong1968
fuckwit1969
rassclaat1969
ass1970
wank1970
fecker1971
wanker1971
butt-fucker1972
slimeball1972
bloodclaat1973
fuckwad1974
mutha1974
suck1974
cocksuck1977
tosser1977
plank1981
sleazebag1981
spastic1981
dweeb1982
bumboclaat1983
dickwad1983
scuzzbag1983
sleazeball1983
butt-face1984
dickweed1984
saddie1985
butt plug1986
jerkweed1988
dick-sucker1989
microcephalic1989
wankstain1990
sadster1992
buttmunch1993
fanny1995
jackhole1996
fassyhole1997
fannybaws2000
fassy2002
1896 G. Ade Artie xvii. 163 Do you think I'm goin' out ridin' with her and have a lot o' cheap skates stoppin' to play horse with her everywhere we go?
1898 F. P. Dunne Mr. Dooley in Peace & War 198 If th' skate fr'm Oklahoma is allowed f'r to belch anny in this here assimblage, th' diligates fr'm th' imperyal Territ'ry iv New Mexico'll lave th' hall.
1904 J. C. Lincoln Cap'n Eri xxi. 383 Offered me a hundred dollars a week, the skate!
1960 H. Pinter Caretaker i. 9 Aston: I saw him have a go at you. Davies:..The filthy skate, an old man like me.
b. labour skate n. U.S. a trade-union official.
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society > occupation and work > worker > those involved in labour relations > [noun] > member of trade union > official
labour skate1930
pork-chopper1941
1930 Amer. Mercury Dec. 456/2 Labor-skate, an official of a labor union.
1978 Washington Post 27 Jan. d7/3 Most of the crowd consisted of labor skates, members of Jewish groups, and friends of Jackson and Moynihan.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
skatev.
/skeɪt/, U.S. /skeɪt/ 1.
a. intransitive. To glide over ice upon skates; to use skates as a means of exercise or pastime. Also with over (cf. row v.1 Phrasal verbs 5).
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > winter sports > skating > skate [verb (intransitive)]
skate1696
skirr1811
patten1850
ice-skate1914
1696 S. Sewall Diary 30 Nov. (1973) I. 360 Many Scholars go in the Afternoon to Scate on Fresh-pond.
1730 J. Thomson Winter in Seasons 222 With him who slides; Or sketing sweeps, swift as the winds, along.
1768 J. Wilkes Corr. (1805) III. 223 I scate almost every day; and amuse myself much with so noble an exercise.
1833 H. Martineau Messrs. Vanderput & Snoek ii. 38 Because I cannot shoot and skait and swim?
1842 N. Hawthorne in S. Longfellow Life H. W. Longfellow (1891) I. 450 I get up at sunrise to skate.
1890 Field 11 Jan. 65/3 One Mile Race. G. C. Tebbutt.. skated over.., Verspijk being absent.
b. transferred. To slide or glide along; to move lightly and rapidly.
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the world > movement > progressive motion > specific manner of progressive motion > move progressively in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > smoothly
slidea950
scritheOE
glidea1275
silec1400
swima1556
steal1626
slip1680
snoove1719
skate1775
sleek1818
1775 C. Davy & F. Davy tr. M.-T. Bourrit Relation of Journey to Glaciers Savoy 219 Driving his heels more or less into the snow, he skaited if I may so call it to the bottom.
1784 H. Cowley Bold Stroke for Husband (London ed.) v. ii. 67 Those new shoes!—they have made me skate all day, like a Dutchman on a canal.
1847 R. W. Emerson Poems 60 The train along the rail-road skates.
1891 Nature 10 Sept. 457/1 Other insects merely dive into the water..or skate upon the surface.
c. figurative, esp in phr. (a) to skate over (or on) thin ice; (b) to skate over or round (a fact, subject, etc.), to pass by or over hurriedly, to avoid mentioning.
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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > face danger [verb (intransitive)] > be in danger > be at risk or in a precarious position
stacker1402
periclitate1581
to stand on a rolling stone1581
to lie upon the wager1590
tottera1616
concern1659
to tread on eggs, on delicate ground, on thin icea1734
tremblea1862
to skate over (or on) thin ice1897
to teeter on the brink1937
the mind > attention and judgement > inattention > ignoring, disregard > ignore, disregard [verb (transitive)] > omit, pass over > in speaking, writing
passa1425
missa1450
ferry1477
pretermit1542
silence1570
slip1607
reticence1833
to miss out1855
to skate over or round1928
1841–4 R. W. Emerson Exper. in Wks. (1906) I. 179 We live amid surfaces, and the true art of life is to skate well on them.
1897 Church Times 17 Sept. 283 Cardinal Vaughan is an adept at skating over thin ice. In his address..there were many points which every one knows were weak, but he glided over them with surprising deftness.
1897 A. Beardsley Let. 15 Sept. (1970) 368 I hardly like to think now of all the thin ice I must have skated over since March 31st—a miraculous patinage!
1926 P. Guedalla Palmerston V. iii. 356 Even Punch regaled its readers with a princely figure of slightly sinister aspect skating perilously on the thin ice of foreign affairs.
1928 Manch. Guardian Weekly 30 Mar. 243/1 The Premier did not do more than skate round the problem.
1945 E. Waugh Brideshead Revisited i. v. 98 He..could talk at length of..how this or that Jesuit or Dominican had skated on thin ice or sailed near the wind in his Lenten discourses.
1948 ‘N. Shute’ No Highway v. 123 We both skated over the implications of that.
1957 Economist 7 Dec. 860/1 The reason for the outbreak of the second Balkan war in 1913..is gracefully skated over.
1965 New Statesman 16 Apr. 622/3 Mr Brown's latest paper on prices and incomes skates carefully around this point.
1971 Where Sept. 266/1 It also skates over the fact that it is an offence to be in possession of the drugs listed if they have not been legally prescribed.
1978 H. Carpenter Inklings iv. i. 216 He skated on thin ice in the opening chapter of The Problem of Pain, where he offered his readers a ‘proof’ of the existence of God which..tackled this immense issue ‘on the scale of a pamphlet in a church porch’.
1979 C. Moule in M. Goulder Incarnation & Myth v. 135 It has been claimed that Mark's christology is authoritative and as much part of the New Testament as Paul's... But this is to skate over the question, What was Mark's intention?
d. colloquial. To depart speedily.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away [verb (intransitive)] > go away suddenly or hastily
fleec825
runOE
swervea1225
biwevec1275
skip1338
streekc1380
warpa1400
yerna1400
smoltc1400
stepc1460
to flee (one's) touch?1515
skirr1548
rubc1550
to make awaya1566
lope1575
scuddle1577
scoura1592
to take the start1600
to walk off1604
to break awaya1616
to make off1652
to fly off1667
scuttle1681
whew1684
scamper1687
whistle off1689
brush1699
to buy a brush1699
to take (its, etc.) wing1704
decamp1751
to take (a) French leave1751
morris1765
to rush off1794
to hop the twig1797
to run along1803
scoot1805
to take off1815
speela1818
to cut (also make, take) one's lucky1821
to make (take) tracks (for)1824
absquatulize1829
mosey1829
absquatulate1830
put1834
streak1834
vamoose1834
to put out1835
cut1836
stump it1841
scratch1843
scarper1846
to vamoose the ranch1847
hook1851
shoo1851
slide1859
to cut and run1861
get1861
skedaddle1862
bolt1864
cheese it1866
to do a bunkc1870
to wake snakes1872
bunk1877
nit1882
to pull one's freight1884
fooster1892
to get the (also to) hell out (of)1892
smoke1893
mooch1899
to fly the coop1901
skyhoot1901
shemozzle1902
to light a shuck1905
to beat it1906
pooter1907
to take a run-out powder1909
blow1912
to buzz off1914
to hop it1914
skate1915
beetle1919
scram1928
amscray1931
boogie1940
skidoo1949
bug1950
do a flit1952
to do a scarper1958
to hit, split or take the breeze1959
to do a runner1980
to be (also get, go) ghost1986
1915 in C. Johnson Battleground Adventures liv. 418 Holt met the ol' man comin' from the barn as hard as he could run. Oh! he was comin' from thar skatin'.
c1926 ‘Mixer’ Transport Workers' Song Bk. 31 Well, I'm skating. Coming, ‘Slasher’?
1937 G. Frankau More of Us v. 63 When one's happy—well, time simply flies. Me for the hay. Let's get our bill, and skate.
e. U.S. slang. (See quots.)
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the world > action or operation > inaction > not doing > abstaining or refraining from action > abstain or refrain from (action) [verb (transitive)] > avoid or shun > avoid (duty, work, or exertion)
shoot1543
scuff1595
to shuffle off1604
shirk1785
funk1834
gold-brick1918
dingo1930
squib1934
skate1945
1945 L. Shelly Hepcats Jive Talk Dict. 17/1 Skate, to get away with something.
1977 Amer. Speech 1975 50 66 Skate vi, shirk duties. ‘The new pledges are really skating this week.’
1979 Observer 18 Mar. (Colour Suppl.) 56 I'm not a woman's libber but I don't want to skate (shirk).
2. transitive.
a. To knock (one) down in skating; to contest (a match), to compete with (some one), by skating.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > winter sports > skating > skate [verb (transitive)] > knock (someone) down
skate1788
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > winter sports > skating > skate [verb (transitive)] > skate (a match)
skate1847
1788 F. Burney Diary Apr. (1842) IV. 141 To skate a man down is a very favourite diversion among a certain race of wags.
1847 C. G. F. Gore Castles in Air xxxiii A match was skated upon the lake.
1890 Field 1 Feb. 143/2 Whether a race is skated or not.
b. To cause (something) to slide or glide over a smooth surface.
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the world > movement > progressive motion > specific manner of progressive motion > move or cause to move progressively in specific manner [verb (transitive)] > cause to move along smoothly
glide1834
skate1883
1883 Daily News 29 Sept. 3/3 They..turn up on deck early in the morning to ‘skate the chairs’.
c. To slide or glide over. Also figurative.
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the world > movement > progressive motion > specific manner of progressive motion > move or cause to move progressively in specific manner [verb (transitive)] > cause to move along smoothly > move smoothly over
overglideOE
skate1900
1900 Daily Express 26 June 4/5 When we poor fenners skate the ice.
1970 G. F. Newman Sir, You Bastard i. 22 Sneed skated the passing out examination with the highest marks on record.
1971 B. Patten Irrelevant Song 27 Quick as the autumn marigold Skates the borders of whitening grass.
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