2. Verb. (third-person singular of skate) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Skates
1. skate [v] - See also: skate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Skates
Literary usage of Skates
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Massachusetts Reports: Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Judicial by Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (1884)
"There was evidence tending to prove that the plaintiff agreed to manufacture at
his factory for the defendant, " until further notice," as many skates as ..."
2. The American Boys Handy Book by Daniel Carter Beard (1890)
"Snow- Shoes or skates. The Norwegian ski is a snow-shoe, or rather a snow- skate,
nine feet long, used by the Norwegians to glide down the mountains or ..."
3. Forms of Judgments and Orders in the High Court of Justice and Court of by Henry Wilmot Seton, Cecil Clare Marston Dale, W. Clowes, Great Britain Court of Appeal (1891)
"... Jury as to Patented skates, with Account of Sales and Pro/its—Discovery, ...
or profitable use of any roller or runner skates not made by the Pit or his ..."
4. The Leisure Hour edited by William Haig Miller, James Macaulay, William Stevens (1876)
"Bicycles and tricycles have had, and still continue to have, their large measure
of public patronage ; and now the smaller wheels, under skates, have come ..."
5. Poems of the English Race by Raymond Macdonald Alden (1921)
"(1892) ELFIN skates EUGENE LEE-HAMILTON [This and the fallowing paem-^-each made
of two sonnets—are from a collection called Sonnets of the Wingless Hours, ..."
6. Reports of the North Carolina Geological and Economic Survey (1907)
"SELACHII or ELASMOBRANCHII (sharks, skates, rays, etc.). it. ... The Sharks,
skates, and Rays. Key to the orders of selachians represented in North Carolina ..."
7. Just Talks on Common Themes by Arthur Gray Staples (1919)
"skates will be the last to go; but never will they hold the place in childhood's
... Anyone can now have a pair of skates as fine and fast and as securely ..."
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