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First published 1971 (SND Vol. VIII).
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SKATE, n.2, v. Also scate. Sc. forms and usages of Eng. skate, an ice-shoe, to glide on ice. Cf. Sketch.

I. n. In comb. scate-shoe, a horse-shoe made to counteract deformity in the animal's gait.Sc. 1830 Perthshire Advert. (15 April):
Foals are frequently seen contracted in the back sinews of the legs, and walking as it were on tiptoe. This is often remedied by a timely application of what farriers call the “scate shoe.”

II. v. In derivs. and comb.: skater, a water-beetle (Slg. 1947 Scots Mag. (Jan.) 307; Fif., Lth., wm.Sc. 1970), skating-deal, a plank fixed on a slope at the mouth of a newly-made coal-pit “to bring the landing stage close to the sinking kettle” (Sc. 1886 J. Barrowman Mining Terms 61).

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