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noun a long pin for holding meat in position while it is being roasted
verb drive a skewer through
originFrom Middle English skeuier, skuer, likely a variant of Middle English *skever, *skiver (compare Modern English skiver), probably of North Germanic origin, compare Icelandic skífa (“to slice”), Norwegian skive, Swedish skiva, Swedish skifer (“a slate”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0