PATE

noun the skin of a calf's head.

2. pate ·adj ·see patte.

3. pate ·noun a pie. ·see patty.

4. pate ·noun the head of a person; the top, or crown, of the head.

5. pate ·noun a kind of platform with a parapet, usually of an oval form, and generally erected in marshy grounds to cover a gate of a fortified place.