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kco

Jun 16, 2010

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Skewer: [skyoo-er]

–noun

1. a long pin of wood or metal for inserting through meat or other food to hold or bind it in cooking.

2. any similar pin for fastening or holding an item in place.

–verb (used with object)

3. to fasten with or as if with a skewer.

Origin,

1679, variant of skiver (1664), perhaps from O.N. skifa "disk, cut, slice," related to shiver (n.). The verb is attested from 1701, from the noun.

shiver (n.) "small piece," c.1200, probably related to M.L.G. schever, schiver "splinter," from P.Gmc. *skif- "split" (cf. O.H.G. skivaro, Ger. Schiefer "splinter, slate"). The verb, "to break in or into pieces" is attested from c.1200. Chiefly in phrases to shivers and shiver me timbers (1835), "a mock oath attributed in comic fiction to sailors" [OED]. My timbers! as a nautical oath is attested from 1789 (see timber). Also, shiver is still dial. for "splinter (n.)" in Norfolk and Lincolnshire.

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kco

Jun 17, 2010

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#2

I don't know about that, I am just learning

Jean-Eud01

Sep 22, 2024

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#3

ok