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SKEWER (skewer)

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IPA (US): 

Irregular inflected form: skewer  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

 Dictionary entry overview: What does skewer mean? 

SKEWER (noun)
  The noun SKEWER has 1 sense:

1. a long pin for holding meat in position while it is being roastedplay

  Familiarity information: SKEWER used as a noun is very rare.


SKEWER (verb)
  The verb SKEWER has 1 sense:

1. drive a skewer throughplay

  Familiarity information: SKEWER used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SKEWER (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("skewer" is a kind of...):

pin (a small slender (often pointed) piece of wood or metal used to support or fasten or attach things)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "skewer"):

spit (a skewer for holding meat over a fire)

Derivation:

skewer (drive a skewer through)


SKEWER (verb)

 Conjugation: 
Present simple: I / you / we / they skewer  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it skewers  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past simple: skewered  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past participle: skewered  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
-ing form: skewering  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


Sense 1

Meaning:

Drive a skewer through

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

skewer; spit

Context example:

skewer the meat for the BBQ

Hypernyms (to "skewer" is one way to...):

pin (pierce with a pin)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

skewer (a long pin for holding meat in position while it is being roasted)


 Context examples 


He could make a boat out of anything, from a skewer upwards.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

One by one the poor devils have to jump, and the game is to see whether they are merely dashed to pieces or whether they get skewered on the canes.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Britannia, that unfortunate female, is always before me, like a trussed fowl: skewered through and through with office-pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)



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