skate

SKATE, n. A sort or shoe furnished with a smooth iron for sliding on ice.

SKATE, v.i. To slide or move on skates.

SKATE, n. [L. squatus, squatina.] A fish of the ray kind, (Raia Batis;) called the variegated ray-fish, It is a flat fish, the largest and thinnest of the genus, some of them weighing nearly two hundred pounds.