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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
skate1
noun
  • 1 an ice skate or roller skate.
  • 2 a wheeled device used to move a heavy or unwieldy object.
verb
  • 1 move on ice skates or roller skates.

    ■ ride on a skateboard.

  • 2 (skate over/round/around) pass over or refer only briefly to (a subject or problem).
– phrases
get one's skates on Brit. informal hurry up.
– derivatives
skater noun,
skating noun.
– origin C17 (orig. as the pl. scates): from Du. schaats (sing. but interpreted as pl.), from OFr. eschasse ‘stilt’.



Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
skate2
noun (pl. same or skates) an edible marine fish of the ray family with a diamond-shaped body. [Raja batis and other species.]
– origin ME: from ON skata.



Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
skate3
noun informal, dated or S. African a disreputable or contemptible man.
– origin C19: origin uncertain.

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