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Skewering

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skew⋅er

  [skyoo-er]
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–noun
1. a long pin of wood or metal for inserting through meat or other food to hold or bind it in cooking.
2. any similar pin for fastening or holding an item in place.
–verb (used with object)
3. to fasten with or as if with a skewer.
Origin:
1670–80; earlier skiver < ?
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skew·er   (skyōō'ər)   
n.  

  1. A long metal or wooden pin used to secure or suspend food during cooking; a spit.

  2. Any of various picks or rods having a function or shape similar to a skewer.

tr.v.   skew·ered, skew·er·ing, skew·ers
To hold together or pierce with or as if with a skewer.

[Middle English skuer, perhaps of Scandinavian origin.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Word Origin & History

skewer  (n.)
1679, variant of skiver (1664), perhaps from O.N. skifa "disk, cut, slice," related to shiver (n.). The verb is attested from 1701, from the noun.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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