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skateway en · NOUN

Etymology

From skate + way.

Meanings

1. (rare) An ice rink or other route for ice skating.
   • One night after the incident, Stribling told a skateway employee, Crawford, that the rink had had trouble with a "nigger" (Johnson) the night before... 1992, West's federal reporter:
   • (Officials now say that thanks to the recent cold weather, the entire five-mile skateway is skate-worthy for the festival opening today.) 2007 February 2, Austin Considine, “Snow or No, It’s a Party”, in New York Times:
   • In the winter it would freeze over into a skateway. 1975, Dennis Holloway, Huldah Curl, Franz C Hall, Winona: towards an energy conserving community:

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