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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.
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Origin:
1670–80; earlier skiver < ?
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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.
Origin:
1350–1400; (v.) ME skewen to slip away, swerve < MD schuwen to get out of the way, shun, deriv. of schu (D schuw) shy 1 ; (adj.) deriv. of the v. (prob. influenced by askew ); (n.) deriv. of the v. and adj.
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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
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Word Origin & History

skew  (v.)
c.1470, from O.N.Fr. eskiuer "shy away from, avoid," O.Fr. eschiver (see eschew). Meaning "depict unfairly" first recorded 1872, on notion of being slanted. Statistical sense dates from 1929. The adj. meaning "slanting, turned to one side" is recorded from 1609; noun meaning "slant, deviation" first attested 1688.

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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Science Dictionary
skew   (sky)  Pronunciation Key 
A transformation of coordinates in which one coordinate is displaced in one direction in proportion to its distance from a coordinate plane or axis. A rectangle, for example, that undergoes skew is transformed into a parallelogram. Also called shear.
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