hockey skate

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noun

a tubular ice skate having a shorter blade than a racing skate and often having a reinforced shoe for protection.

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I watch football, basketball, and hockey on TV and sometimes “The Bass Pros” on Outdoor Channel.
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Many of those gathering in the run-up to the grand jury decision wore hockey and tear gas masks to conceal their identity.
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Barnes and Harper talked deeply about hockey, a subject that the prime minister has written a book about.
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They were also, according to NHL coaching great Scotty Bowman, the greatest lineup in the history of hockey.
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Yeah, he wanted to skate and had never skated before, so I taught him when he was 58.
Putin’s Hockey Pal Tells All: Slava Fetisov on ‘Red Army,’ Soviet Nostalgia, and What Drives Putin|Marlow Stern|October 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST
I bet a feller can skate in the streeton the sidewalkalmost anywhere this morning, declared Chet, with enthusiasm.
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The one shown was pivoted to a roller-skate wheel which in turn was fastened to a metal standard.
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The beam was attached to the skate wheel with two small bolts which were insulated and carried two brushes as commutator contacts.
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And there's a swimming bath, and hockey, and cricket, and tennis.
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Daddy will see that he has a new suit for school, but wouldn't you like to send him hockey skates?
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