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skewers

skewers is the plural of skewer.

skewers is the third-person singular simple present indicative of skewer.

Meaning of skewer

Noun (1)

skewer (plural skewers)

  1. A long pin, normally made of metal or wood, used to secure food during cooking.
    • Larissa, 107 miles from Salonica, is reached at 10.33, and there is a halt of 17 min. while vendors of oranges, cheese, meat on skewers, sweetmeats, and Turkish coffee do a brisk trade.1951 November, 'Pausanias', “To Greece by the "Simplon-Orient Express"”, in Railway Magazine, page 731
  2. Food served on a skewer.
  3. A scenario in which a piece attacks a more valuable piece which, if it moves aside, exposes a less valuable piece.

Noun (2)

skewer (plural skewers)

  1. (rare) That which skews something.

See all 7 meanings of skewer

Phrases with skewers

Questions about skewers

What is skewers the plural of?
Skewers is the plural of skewer.

Words near skewers in the dictionary

  1. skewerer
  2. skewerers
  3. skewering
  4. skewerings
  5. skewerlike
  6. skewers
  7. Skewes
  8. Skewes' number
  9. Skewes' numbers
  10. Skeweses
  11. skewest

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Adapted from Wiktionary: skewers (page history and authors); skewer (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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