A long pin, normally made of metal or wood, used to secure food during cooking.

Food served on a skewer

A scenario in which a piece attacks a more valuable piece which, if it moves aside, reveals a less valuable piece. Compare pin.W

To impale on a skewer.

To attack a piece which has a less valuable piece behind it.

To severely mock or discredit.

Neither parallel nor at right angles to a certain line; askew.

Of two lines in three-dimensional space: neither intersecting nor parallel.

Of a distribution: asymmetrical about its mean.

That which skews something.