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▪ I. skewer, n.|ˈskjuːə(r)|
Also 7 scure, scuer, 8 scewer.
[A variant of skiver n.1, which is prob. the more original form: cf. kever, kiver, and cure as variants of cover v., and newt from earlier evet.
In the Nottingham Recs. II. 86 (an entry of 1411) it is probable that skuer should be read as skumer, scummer.]
1. a. A long wooden or metal pin, used especially to fasten meat or the like together, to keep it in form while being cooked.
1679Evelyn Sylva (ed. 3) xxi. 100 The Wild Cornel or Dog-wood good to make Mill-Cogs, Pestles,..Butchers Skewers, &c. 1688Holme Armoury iii. 292/2 A Butchers Cambril, Or, between two Scuers. Ibid. 315/1 He beareth Azure, two Skewers or Flesh pricks. 1704Swift Batt. Bks. Misc. (1711) 266 He with Iron Skewer, pierces the tender Sides of both, their Legs and Wings close pinion'd to their Ribs. 1729― Direct. Serv. ii, Send up your Meat well stuck with Scewers, to make it look round and plump. 1809Asiat. Researches IX. 60 These leaves are..used all over India to make baskets, and made fast together, with skewers, from the fibres of the bambu. 1837Whittock Bk. Trades (1842) 33 [Bleacher], To these pieces of canvass, the ends of the web of calico..may be fastened by wooden ‘skewers’. 1881Young Every Man his own Mechanic §79. 33 It is the wood used by butchers for making wooden skewers.
fig.1872Black Adv. Phaeton xii, Transfixed by the red⁓hot skewers of jealousy.
b. A metal pin used to fasten an article of dress or to secure the hair.
1771Smollett Humph. Cl. (1815) 234 A fringed blanket, fastened about her shoulders with a copper skewer. 1825Bentham Ration. Reward 303 The buckles of the Romans, and the skewers employed by Queen Elizabeth. 1840Hood Up Rhine 222 Two plaited bands of hair..fastened up with a flat silver or gilt skewer.
c. A pin on which a bobbin is placed.
1835Ure Philos. Manuf. 158 But single bobbins are set on skewers in the reel in correspondence with the single spindles on the copping rail. 1875Knight Dict. Mech. 315/1 The bobbins..are mounted..on a creel which has skewers for their reception.
d. Applied contemptuously to a weapon.
1838James Robber vii, Let us look at your skewer in a handle, my Lord. 1848Sinks of London Laid Open 124/2 Skewer, sword. 1934A. Russell Tramp-Royal in Wild Australia xxxviii. 254 There'd be ‘skewers’ flying in all directions. Rotten wounds they'd make—barbed, you know.
2. attrib. and Comb., as skewer-full, skewer-machine, skewer-maker; skewer-piece (see quot. 1867); skewer tree, wood, the spindle-tree, from the wood of which skewers are made.
(a)1782J. Scott Poet. Wks. 95 The green skewerwood seeds of scarlet shows. 1863Prior Brit. Pl., Skewer-wood, from skewers being made of it, a shrub called in the Western counties Skiver-wood, Evonymus Europæus. 1894Cornh. Mag. Feb. 164 The square berries of the skewer tree little known except to the birds and the gipsies.
(b)1832Marryat N. Forster xl, Strung together like what we call ‘skewer pieces’ on board of a man-of-war. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk. 629 The meat being then divided into messes, the remnants are cut into small pieces termed skewer-pieces. 1875Knight Dict. Mech. 2194/2 Skewer⁓machine. 1880Times 10 Dec. 3/4 Tempting the hungry passers-by to purchase a skewer-full of the dainty roast. 1885Instr. Census Clerks 1881 46 Skewer Maker.
▪ II. skewer, v.|ˈskjuːə(r)|
Also 8 skuer.
[f. the n.]
1. trans. To fasten (meat, etc.) with a skewer; to pierce with a skewer or skewers. Also const. together, up, upon.
1701C. Wolley Jrnl. New York (1860) 29 Some be of Bears Skins and Rackoon Skins sewed or skuered together. 1741Compl. Fam.-Piece i. ii. 147 Skewer them and roast them or stove or bake them, just as you please. 1769Mrs. Raffald Eng. Housekpr. (1778) 69 Skewer your hare with the head upon one shoulder. 1806A. Hunter Culina (ed. 3) 69 Skewer the fillet as close as possible. 1834Marryat P. Simple v, A piece of stick..upon which were skewered..pieces of beef and pork.
refl.1821Scott Kenilw. xxxiii, If thou takest all that trouble of skewering thyself together, like a trussed fowl.
fig.1850Dickens Dav. Copp. xliv, Britannia, that unfortunate female.., skewered through and through with office pens and bound..with red tape. 1871Member for Paris II. 10 He..served him up every day to the readers of the Pavois, skewered through and through with an epigram.
b. To run through, transfix, with a sword or other weapon.
1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. ii. iii. iii, Perhaps not to part, but to fall mutually skewered through with iron. 1861C. Reade Cloister & H. xliii, He felt his arm hot, then cold, and there was an English arrow skewering it. 1870M. Bridgman R. Lynne I. xiii. 214, I thought I was being skewered by a horrid savage.
refl.1865Tylor Early Hist. Man. xi. 311 The bird alighted there, and skewered itself upon the lance.
c. To place upon skewers. Cf. skewer n. 1 c.
1835Ure Philos. Manuf. 379 There are 1656 under 18 years of age, of whom..108 [are employed] in..skewering cops.
2. To fix, fasten, or secure to or into something else with, or as with, a skewer or skewers; to truss. Const. in, into, to, also down, up.
1777Sheridan Trip to Scarborough v. ii, Why should you..suffer the rascals thus to skewer down my arms like a rabbit! 1799W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. VII. 139 We'll see what fare the butler's foresight Has skewer'd into my knapsack. 1815Hist. J. Decastro III. 331 He saw a great long thing lying on the ground skewered up in a white cloth. 1840P. Parley's Ann. 364 The grenadier turned down his bayonet, and skewered him to the ground. 1890Nature 30 Oct. 641 The mats are skewered on to two long bamboos.
fig.1838Coleridge in Lit. Rem. III. 174 When so strict a Calvinist..could skewer such frippery patches..on the sober gown and cassock of a Reformed and Scriptural Church!
3. To fix or thrust (into or through something) like a skewer or skewers.
1869Blackmore Lorna D. xxvi, He skewered his great eyes into mine. 1876A. J. Evans Through Bosnia iv. 135 They took a sharp stake..and..skewered it right through the carcase.
Hence ˈskewered ppl. a.; ˈskewering vbl. n.
1794T. Wedge Agric. Chester 58 The more perfectly the whey is got out of the cheese, by skewering, thrusting, and pressing, the less air will be left in it. 1806A. Hunter Culina (ed. 3) 237 Take the steaks,..then roll them up, and secure their form by skewering. 1839Mag. Dom. Econ. IV. 243 The cheese..is turned and the pressure and skewering continued. 1868Daily Tel. 29 May, The Chinese belles, with their crimped..and skewered hair. |