Skating: alternatives and connections

To cause to contract, or to render more crisp, as the flesh of a fish, by gashing it, when living, with a knife; as, to crimp skate, e…

The friar skate.

To gain knowledge or information of; to ascertain by inquiry, study, or investigation; to receive instruction concerning; to fix in th…

The female of a ray or skate, esp. of the gray skate (Raia batis), and of the thornback (R. clavata).

Connected with both the nose and the mouth; as, the nasobuccal groove in the skate.

A genus of rays which includes the skates. See Skate.

In a restricted sense, any of the broad, flat, narrow-tailed species, as the skates and sting rays. See Skate.

A skate with a curved blade, somewhat resembling in shape the rocker of a cradle.

A small wheel, as of a caster, a roller skate, etc.

One of the pieces on which a sled or sleigh slides; also the part or blade of a skate which slides on the ice.

The friar skate.

See Skate, for the foot.

A white crystalline substance of a sweetish taste, resembling inosite and metameric with dextrose. It is extracted from the kidney of…

The horny egg case of a skate, and of certain sharks.

of Skate

A European skate (Raia clavata) having thornlike spines on its back.

A skate.

Anything, or any part, corresponding to the toe of the foot; as, the toe of a boot; the toe of a skate.