Meanings
plural skateways
- rareAn ice rink or other route for ice skating.
In the winter it would freeze over into a skateway.
1975, Dennis Holloway, Huldah Curl, Franz C Hall, Winona: towards an energy conserving community2 more examples
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
Origin
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