different between skewer vs skewering

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?skju??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?skju??/
• Rhymes: -u??(?)

Etymology 1

From 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”).

Noun

skewer (plural skewers)

1. A long pin, normally made of metal or wood, used to secure food during cooking.
2. Food served on a skewer. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
3. (chess) A scenario in which a piece attacks a more valuable piece which, if it moves aside, reveals a less valuable piece.

   Coordinate term: pin

Translations

Verb

skewer (third-person singular simple present skewers, present participle skewering, simple past and past participle skewered)

1. To impale on a skewer.
2. (chess) To attack a piece which has a less valuable piece behind it.
3. (figuratively) To severely mock or discredit.

Translations

Etymology 2

From skew +? -er.

Noun

skewer (plural skewers)

1. (rare) That which skews something.

Adjective

skewer

1. comparative form of skew: more skew

Anagrams

• krewes, reskew, werkes

English

Verb

skewering

1. present participle of skewer

Noun

skewering (plural skewerings)

1. The act by which something is skewered.

Anagrams

• reskewing