I. noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Cut the sausages in half through the middle and push each half on the end of a wooden skewer .
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Order the beef teriyaki skewers or lobster chao on sugar cane sticks.
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Pierce grapes with a skewer or needle to allow them to absorb rum.
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Place one cake on a serving plate, spike all over with a skewer and lace with half the kirsch.
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Steam 8 minutes, or until a skewer easily slips in and out of the thickest part of the fish.
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Thread the fruit on to 8 small skewers.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Simon skewers the Rolling Stones in their old age in her song, "The Reason."
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They nibbled chunks of Cheddar cheese skewered with toothpicks.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All filmmakers that have done that have gotten skewered over and over and over.
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And every time I open the curtains, my conscience is skewered.
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Embedded in the wood, it momentarily skewered him to the window-frame.
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How she would have skewered all this passing fuss with her incisive wit!
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If you skewered a Huey on a sharp stump during an assault, it was pilot error.
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This is a good thing because, even if you could, further impacts might well drive them inwards, skewering your lungs.
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This piece of wood passes right through Turnbull, so that he is skewered.