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Skewer   /skjˈuər/   Listen
Skewer

noun
1.
A long pin for holding meat in position while it is being roasted.
verb
(past & past part. skewered; pres. part. skewering)
1.
Drive a skewer through.  Synonym: spit.


Skew

adjective
1.
Having an oblique or slanting direction or position.  Synonym: skewed.



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"Skewer" Quotes from Famous Books



... and, as a guarantee of good faith, pretended to skewer his lips together with ...
— Castellinaria - and Other Sicilian Diversions • Henry Festing Jones
... upon him, its little switch of a tail oscillating rapidly in the air, and its trunk stretched horizontally towards him, with Ossaroo's own arrow still sticking in it. It seemed to know that it was he who had sent that skewer through its gristly snout—perhaps giving it far more pain than the leaden missiles that had flattened against its thick skull; and for this reason it had chosen him as the first victim of ...
— The Cliff Climbers - A Sequel to "The Plant Hunters" • Captain Mayne Reid
... bold, and incautiously trusting himself within reach, Toro lunged so sharply out that it was only by the merest shave he escaped being spitted on the Italian's long sword like a lark on a skewer. ...
— Jack Harkaway and his son's Escape From the Brigand's of Greece • Bracebridge Hemyng
... Rabourdin dressed as a butcher (make it a good likeness), find analogies between a kitchen and a bureau, put a skewer in his hand, draw portraits of the principal clerks and stick their heads on fowls, put them in a monstrous coop labelled 'Civil Service executions'; make him cutting the throat of one, and supposed to take the others in turn. ...
— Bureaucracy • Honore de Balzac
... other parts of his body might be convulsed during the culinary operations, there could be no feeling of consciousness therein, the communication with the brain being cut off; but if the woman were immediately to stick a fork into his eye, skin him alive, coil him up in a skewer, head and all, so that in the extremest agony he could not move, and forthwith broil him to death: then were the same Almighty Power that formed man from the dust, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, to call the eel into a new existence, with a knowledge of the treatment ...
— The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb, Volume 2 • Charles Lamb


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