- skate bottom
- noun
: a square of canvas with a length of rope attached to each corner for storing a coiled skate of setline
Useful english dictionary. 2012.
skate bottom
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skate — skate1 [ skeıt ] noun * 1. ) count a type of shoe with a thin metal blade on the bottom, used for moving quickly on ice: ICE SKATE a ) the metal blade that is attached to the bottom of an ice skate 2. ) count a type of shoe with four thick wheels … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
skate */ — I UK [skeɪt] / US noun Word forms skate : singular skate plural skates 1) a) [countable] a type of shoe with a thin metal blade on the bottom, used for moving quickly on ice b) the metal blade that is fixed to the bottom of an ice skate 2)… … English dictionary
skate — skate1 [skeıt] n [Sense: 1 2,4; Date: 1600 1700; : Dutch; Origin: schaats stilt, skate , from Old North French escache stilt ] [Sense: 3; Date: 1300 1400; : Old Norse; Origin: skata] 1.) one of a pair of boots with metal blades on the bottom, for … Dictionary of contemporary English
Skate — Taxobox name = Skates image width = 220px image caption = Barndoor Skate, Dipturus laevis regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata classis = Chondrichthyes subclassis = Elasmobranchii superordo = Batoidea ordo = Rajiformes familia = Rajidae… … Wikipedia
skate — skate1 skateable, adj. /skayt/, n., v., skated, skating. n. 1. See ice skate (def. 1). 2. See roller skate. 3. the blade of an ice skate … Universalium
skate — 1 noun 1 (C) one of a pair of boots with metal blades on the bottom, for moving quickly on ice; iceskate2 2 (C) one of a pair of boots or frames with small wheels on the bottom, for moving quickly on flat smooth surfaces; roller skate 3 (C, U)… … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
Bottom trawling — The Celtic Explorer, a research vessel engaged in bottom trawling … Wikipedia
skate — skeɪt n. ice skate, shoe with a blade on the bottom for gliding on ice; roller skate, shoe with wheels on the bottom for gliding on hard surfaces; any of a number of large flat fish that are related to rays v. glide across ice with ice skates;… … English contemporary dictionary
skate — [skeɪt] noun [C] I 1) a type of shoe with a thin metal blade on the bottom, used for moving quickly on ice Syn: ice skate 2) a type of shoe with four thick wheels on the bottom, used for moving quickly on a smooth surface Syn: roller skates II… … Dictionary for writing and speaking English
skate — I. /skeɪt / (say skayt) noun 1. a steel blade attached to the bottom of a shoe, enabling a person to glide on ice. 2. a shoe with such a blade attached. 3. → rollerskate (def. 1). 4. → rollerblade (def. 1). 5. Electricity the sliding contact… …
