Synonyms for skate
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : skeyt |
| Phonetic Transcription : skeɪt |
Définition of skate
Origin :- "type of flat, cartilaginous fish, a kind of ray," mid-14c., from a Scandinavian source, cf. Old Norse skata "skate," Danish skade, Faeroese skøta, of unknown origin.
- verb slide
- After this Tobias advanced, embraced his father, and then rubbed his eyes with the skate's liver.
- Extract from : « My Double Life » by Sarah Bernhardt
- When in town, they skate or walk or visit the riding-school: all good.
- Extract from : « The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 10, No. 58, August, 1862 » by Various
- "You must throw that skate away," said Florent as he came up.
- Extract from : « The Fat and the Thin » by Emile Zola
- We live amid surfaces, and the true art of life is to skate well on them.
- Extract from : « Essays, Second Series » by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- She learned to skate in three lessons,—and how she did it too!
- Extract from : « Tony Butler » by Charles James Lever
- If there were no fools to skate on the Serpentine, there had been no Humane Society.
- Extract from : « Barrington » by Charles James Lever
- You can skate on ice, but not on a sidewalk, with ice skates.
- Extract from : « Common Science » by Carleton W. Washburne
- "I don't know much about how they can skate," was the reply.
- Extract from : « The Rover Boys on Snowshoe Island » by Edward Stratemeyer
- "If your father says not to skate there that ought to go with you," cut in Dick.
- Extract from : « Steve and the Steam Engine » by Sara Ware Bassett
- In the meantime the sixth boy had lost a skate and dropped out.
- Extract from : « The Rover Boys on the Farm » by Arthur M. Winfield (AKA Edward Stratemeyer)
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