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Skewer   /skjˈuər/   Listen
Skewer

noun
1.
A long pin for holding meat in position while it is being roasted.






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"Skewer" Quotes from Famous Books



... 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

... Limited shell be boun to bill an equip for them a free school house. An faw evvy school house so billden sed Company Limited shell be likewise boun to bill another sommers in the three Counties where a equal or greater number of collared children are without one. Thattle skewer the ...
— John March, Southerner • George W. Cable



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