An ice skate, roller skate, or inline skate.

This is Westcountry slang dating back to before the First World War. Skates are very slippery fish and the name was applied to people who had slippery natures in that they were untrustworthy, would try to avoid giving information or were just not very likeable. The use of the name expanded to inc...

One of a pair of boots with metal blades on the bottom, for moving quickly on ice SYN ice skate.