skate

skate

¹

1. See roller skate ice skate

2. the steel blade or runner of an ice skate

3. such a blade fitted with straps for fastening to a shoe

4. a current collector on an electric railway train that collects its current from a third rail

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skate

²

any large ray of the family Rajidae, of temperate and tropical seas, having flat pectoral fins continuous with the head, two dorsal fins, a short spineless tail, and a long snout

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skate

[skāt]

(vertebrate zoology)

Any of various batoid elasmobranchs in the family Rajidae which have flat bodies with winglike pectoral fins and a slender tail with two small dorsal fins.

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