Talk:skate

Which sense is this? Missing?
In Kipling's Captains Courageous "How many skates you reckon we'll need?" Something to do with fishing, or preparing fishing bait. Not ice skates, I think, nor the type of fish called skate. Equinox ◑ 22:17, 24 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Maybe its the sense the OED has as "A set of tackle for halibut-fishing, etc., used chiefly on the Pacific Coast of North America." &mdash;The Editor's Apprentice (talk) 06:28, 26 February 2024 (UTC)