skating (skating)

[Verbal n. of skate2, v.] The exercise or art of moving on skates. I cannot by any means ascertain at what time skating made its first appearance in England, but we find some traces of such an exercise in the thirteenth century. Strutt, Sports and Pastimes, p. 153. skating-rink (skā'ting-ringk), n. See rink2 . 5665 skatol (skat'ol), n . [ σκῶρ (gen. σκατός ), dung, dirt, + -ol .] A crystalline volatile ni- trogenous principle, C8H5 (CH3)NH, having an intense fecal odor, produced in the putre- factive changes which take place in the intes- tines. skavelt, n. [Appar. a var. of shovel (AS. scoft ).] A shovel. Sharpe cutting spade for the deuiding of mow, With skuppet and skauel that marsh men alow. Tu er , Husbandry, p. 38. ( Davies .)