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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A shoe or boot with a set of wheels attached to its sole for skating on hard surfaces.
  • noun A metal frame with a set of such wheels that is attached to the sole of a shoe.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • 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.
  • 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.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A boot having small wheels or casters attached to its sole; used for roller skating
  • verb To skate using roller skates

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb travel on shoes with steel or rubber rollers attached to their soles
  • noun a shoe with pairs of rollers fixed to the sole

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  • Remember the metal ones that fit over your regular shoes by means of clamps and then strapped around your ankle? You had to use a special key to adjust the size.

    January 28, 2008