'Roller skate' definitions:
Definition of 'roller skate'
From: WordNet
noun
A shoe with pairs of rollers fixed to the sole
verb
Travel on shoes with steel or rubber rollers attached to their soles; "In some fashionable restaurants, the waiters roller skate around"
Definition of 'Roller skate'
From: GCIDE
- Roller skate \Roll"er skate\
- 1. a shoe with a set of wheels attached so that the wearer can glide over a flat surface. To move on such a device is reverred to as to skate or to rollerskate. To rollerskate is a form of recreation or sport. [PJC]
- 2. a metal frame of the size of a shoe, with a set of wheels attached, and with adjustable clamps and straps that permit a shoe to be reversibly fastened to the frame. It serves the same purpose as the roller skate having the shoe permanently attached, but is typically less expensive. [PJC]
Definition of 'Roller skate'
From: GCIDE
- 10. (Zool.) Any species of small ground snakes of the family Tortricidae. [1913 Webster]
- Ground roller (Zool.), any one of several species of Madagascar rollers belonging to Atelornis and allied genera. They are nocturnal birds, and feed on the ground.
- Roller bolt, the bar in a carriage to which the traces are attached; a whiffletree. [Eng.]
- Roller gin, a cotton gin inn which rolls are used for separating the seeds from the fiber.
- Roller mill. See under Mill.
- Roller skate, a skate which has small wheels in the place of the metallic runner; -- designed for use in skating upon a smooth, hard surface, other than ice. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Roller skate'
From: GCIDE
- Skate \Skate\ (sk[=a]t), n. [D. schaats. Cf. Scatches.] A metallic runner with a frame shaped to fit the sole of a shoe, -- made to be fastened under the foot, and used for moving rapidly on ice. [1913 Webster]
- Batavia rushes forth; and as they sweep, On sounding skates, a thousand different ways, In circling poise, swift as the winds, along, The then gay land is maddened all to joy. --Thomson. [1913 Webster]
- Roller skate. See under Roller. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'roller skate'
From: Moby Thesaurus