Skew Synonyms & Definitions

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• SkewDefinition & Meaning in English

1. (v. i.) To start aside; to shy, as a horse.
2. (n.) A stone at the foot of the slope of a gable, the offset of a buttress, or the like, cut with a sloping surface and with a check to receive the coping stones and retain them in place.
3. (adv.) Awry; obliquely; askew.
4. (v. i.) To look obliquely; to squint; hence, to look slightingly or suspiciously.
5. (a.) Turned or twisted to one side; situated obliquely; skewed; -- chiefly used in technical phrases.
6. (v. i.) To walk obliquely; to go sidling; to lie or move obliquely.
7. (adv.) To shape or form in an oblique way; to cause to take an oblique position.
8. (adv.) To throw or hurl obliquely.

• SkewedDefinition & Meaning in English

1. (imp. & p. p.) of Skew

• SkewerDefinition & Meaning in English

1. (n.) A pin of wood or metal for fastening meat to a spit, or for keeping it in form while roasting.
2. (v. t.) To fasten with skewers.