skate
noun
[ skeɪt ]
• an ice skate or roller skate.
• "everyone was on skates"
skate
verb
• move on ice skates or roller skates in a gliding fashion.
• "the boys were skating on the ice"
• pass over or refer only fleetingly to (a subject or problem).
• "she seemed to skate over the next part of her story"
• make quick and easy progress through.
• "he admits he had expected to skate through the system"
Origin:
mid 17th century (originally as the plural scates ): from Dutch schaats (singular but interpreted as plural), from Old French eschasse ‘stilt’.
skate
noun
• a typically large marine fish of the ray family with a cartilaginous skeleton and a flattened diamond-shaped body.
Origin:
Middle English: from Old Norse skata .
skate
noun
• an uncouth and disreputable man.
Origin:
late 19th century: of uncertain origin.
