skewer
Americannoun
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a long pin of wood or metal for inserting through meat or other food to hold or bind it in cooking.
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any similar pin for fastening or holding an item in place.
verb (used with object)
noun
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a long pin for holding meat in position while being cooked, etc
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a similar pin having some other function
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chess a tactical manoeuvre in which an attacked man is made to move and expose another man to capture
verb
Other Word Forms
- unskewered adjective
Etymology
Origin of skewer
First recorded in 1670–80; earlier skiver < ?
Example Sentences
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The scene that best defines the story’s idealism happens long before Dunk gets clunked in the head or skewered by a lance.
From Salon
They dined on famed North Korean cold noodles or grilled lamb skewers washed down with cold beers.
I start filling my own plate with anything that will fit—salmon skewers, cubed potatoes, roasted corn, and garlic bread.
From Literature
I was going to finish with a squinty-eyed skewer, aimed directly at Daddy.
From Literature
Here, Melville is an American Kafka or Gogol, and in this guise, he skewers our pervasive national ethos that values ambition and striving above all.
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