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noun
1.
ice skate (def. 1).
3.
the blade of an ice skate.
4.
a skid on a lifeboat to facilitate launching from a listing ship.
verb (used without object)
5.
to glide or propel oneself over ice, the ground, etc., on skates.
6.
to glide or slide smoothly along.
7.
Slang. to shirk one's duty; loaf.
8.
(of the tone arm on a record player) to swing toward the spindle while a record is playing.
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verb (used with object)
Idioms9.
to slide (a flat) across the floor of a stage.
10.
get/put one's skates on, British Informal. to make haste.
11.
skate on thin ice, to be or place oneself in a risky or delicate situation: Taking a public stand on the question would be skating on thin ice.
Origin:
1640–50; orig. plural scates < Dutch schaats (singular) skate, Middle Dutch schaetse stilt (compare Medieval Latin scatia) < ?
1640–50; orig. plural scates < Dutch schaats (singular) skate, Middle Dutch schaetse stilt (compare Medieval Latin scatia) < ?
Related forms
skate·a·ble, adjective
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Word Origin & History
skate
"ice skate or roller skate," 1662, skeates "ice skates" (the custom was brought to England after the Restoration by exiled followers of Charles II who had taken refuge in Holland), from Du. schaats (singular, mistaken in Eng. as plural), from M.Du. schaetse, from O.N.Fr. escache "a stilt, trestle,"
EXPAND from O.Fr. eschace "stilt" (Fr. échasse), from Frank. *skakkja "stilt" (cf. Fris. skatja "stilt"), perhaps lit. "thing that shakes or moves fast" and related to root of O.E. sceacan "to vibrate" (see shake). Or perhaps the Du. word is connected to M.L.G. schenke, O.E. scanca "leg" (see shank). Sense alteration in Du. from "stilt" to "skate" is not clearly traced. The verb is attested from 1696; U.S. slang sense of "to get away with something" is attested from 1945.
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