skewer

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Meat on skewers

Bamboo skewers

Noun

skewer (plural skewers)

1. A long pin, normally made of metal or wood, used to secure food during cooking.
2. (chess) A scenario in which a piece attacks a more valuable piece which, if it moves aside, reveals a less valuable piece. Compare pin.^W

Translations

pin used to secure food during cooking

• Armenian: շամփուր (hy) (šamp’ur)
• Catalan: broqueta (ca) f
• Czech: špíz (cs) m
• Dutch: spies (nl)
• Finnish: varras (fi), paistinvarras (fi)
• French: brochette (fr) f, broche (fr) f
• Georgian: შამფური (ka) (šamp'uri)
• German: Spieß (de) m, Spießchen (de) n
• Greek: σούβλα (el) (soúvla) n
• Hebrew: שיפוד (he) (shipud) m
• Japanese: 串 (ja) (くし, kushi)

• Portuguese: espeto (pt) m
• Russian: шампур (ru) (šampúr) m, вертел (ru) (vértel) m
• Scottish Gaelic: dealg (gd) f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ра́жањ (sh) m

  Roman: rážanj (sh) m

• Spanish: brocheta (es) f, fierrito (es) m, anticucho (es) m, pincho (es)
• Swedish: spett (sv) n
• Turkish: şiş (tr)
• Uzbek: six (uz)
• Vietnamese: xiên nướng thịt (vi)

chess scenario

• Finnish: varras (fi)

• French: enfilade (fr) f

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• Albanian: hell (sq) m
• Vietnamese: xiên (vi)

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.

Translations

to impale on a skewer

• Dutch: vastprikken met een vleespin (nl), aan het spit rijgen (nl)
• Finnish: varrastaa (fi), seivästää (fi)
• French: embrocher (fr)
• German: aufspießen
• Greek: σουβλίζω (el) (souvlízo), διατρυπώ (el) (diatripó)

• Japanese: 串に刺す (くしにさす, kushi ni sasu), 串刺しにする (くしざしにする, kushizashi ni suru)
• Portuguese: empalar (pt)
• Turkish: şişlemek (tr)

chess: to attack a piece with a less valuable piece behind

• Finnish: varrastaa (fi)

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