noun, verb
noun a long thin pointed piece of metal or wood that is pushed through pieces of meat, vegetables, etc. to hold them together while they are cooking, or used to test whether sth is completely cooked
verb [VN] to push a skewer or other thin pointed object through sth:
Skewer the meat and vegetables. * The murderer had skewered him to the floor.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for skewer is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does skewer appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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