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skewer

noun as in rod

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That’s easily enough room for a full dinner for four, fitting five burgers, and several skewers of veggies at once.

Meat thermometers, tongs, forks, skewers, rotisseries, grilling gloves, and every other grilling tool imaginable can have a nice, orderly place to hide when not in use.

Other tools may be needed for specialized cooking, like skewers for kabobs and a rotisserie for roasting a chicken.

I helped myself to a buffet of shrimp cocktail and skewers of bacon and beef, then settled at a table next to an elderly couple from north of town.

Thread the chicken onto metal skewers and place the kebabs on a foil-lined pan.

Satirists occupy a perilous position—to skewer dogma and cant, and to antagonize the establishment while needing its protection.

Obama has been at it again the last few weeks, taking his act on the road to comically skewer the climate change deniers.

Without context, subtlety, and commentary, a parody begins to look eerily like the scenario it is attempting to skewer.

At their luckiest, some writers skewer the present while accidentally anticipating events to come.

To find out why Judge & Co. decided to skewer Silicon Valley, and how they went about doing it, we recently gave them a call.

Lay them on a hot tin that the paste may rise and fry them in lard not too hot, turning them with a skewer.

He was clad in tattered garments, surmounted by an old sack, fastened together round his shoulders with a wooden skewer.

Put the skewer between the buttered bars of the gridiron, dust them a little with pepper and brown them.

If its surface is not well covered with a layer of fat, place several pieces of salt pork on it and tie or skewer them fast.

Then skewer the front legs back under the body in the same way.

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On this page you'll find 14 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to skewer, such as: brochette, lance, pick, pin, spit, and truss.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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