[skyoo-er] 
| 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. |
| 3. | to fasten with or as if with a skewer. |
[skyoo] | 1. | to turn aside or swerve; take an oblique course. |
| 2. | to look obliquely; squint. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 11. | an oblique movement, direction, or position. |
| 12. | Also called skew chisel. a wood chisel having a cutting edge set obliquely. |
| skew·er (skyōō'ər) n.
To hold together or pierce with or as if with a skewer. [Middle English skuer, perhaps of Scandinavian origin.] |