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skew⋅er
[skyoo-er] 
–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 < ?
1670–80; earlier skiver < ?
skew
[skyoo] –verb (used without object)
| 1. | to turn aside or swerve; take an oblique course. |
| 2. | to look obliquely; squint. |
–verb (used with object)
| 3. | to give an oblique direction to; shape, form, or cut obliquely. |
| 4. | Slang. to make conform to a specific concept, attitude, or planned result; slant: The television show is skewed to the young teenager. |
| 5. | to distort; depict unfairly. |
–adjective
| 6. | having an oblique direction or position; slanting. |
| 7. | having a part that deviates from a straight line, right angle, etc.: skew gearing. |
| 8. | Mathematics. (of a dyad or dyadic) equal to the negative of its conjugate. |
| 9. | (of an arch, bridge, etc.) having the centerline of its opening forming an oblique angle with the direction in which its spanning structure is built. |
| 10. | Statistics. (of a distribution) having skewness. |
–noun
| 11. | an oblique movement, direction, or position. |
| 12. | Also called skew chisel. a wood chisel having a cutting edge set obliquely. |
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| skew·er (skyōō'ər) n.
To hold together or pierce with or as if with a skewer. [Middle English skuer, perhaps of Scandinavian origin.] |
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Skewer
Skew"er\, n. [Probably of Scand, origin; cf. Sw. & Dan. skifer a slate. Cf. Shuver a fragment.] A pin of wood or metal for fastening meat to a spit, or for keeping it in form while roasting. Meat well stuck with skewers to make it look round. --Swift.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : skewer
Spanish:
brocheta, pincho,
German:
der Spieß,
Japanese:
くし
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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