What is "skewer"

Usage examples of "skewer".

Like the others, he was naked and sported the characteristic Benji bowl-haircut, and he wore thin sticks skewered through the lobes of his ears.

His bridleless mount, the Avarclon, dashed foes to the ground and skewered them with his horn.

Chewed limbs he ran ahunting amongst the wild Outhouses, wantonly skewering hell-beasties with his bow and his sharp arrows, conversing with famous Caesars of Rome and Kings of Africa and other dead folk condemned to the perditious gray lands of Hades, and flexing his biceps for the New Tourists and their new-fangled electronic Nikons and Leicas, their Sony videocams.

The Pursuivant went down, skewered, even as my pombi claws swept the Invigilator from his saddle.

I mean that he could set the quintain at right angles to its normal position, charge it at a full gallop, and while passing three yards from it thrust his lance out to the side and skewer the hole every time.

Goose with apples, breaded mutton chops, shashlik on skewers, steamed sturgeon.

They both had shashlik, chunks of seasoned lamb grilled on a skewer, like Turkish shish kebab.

Celtic infantry met, the screams of skewered men and disemboweled horses, and then a melee of combat, the senior tribune slashing with his spatha as he kicked his horse toward Arden.

The historian saw children with their skulls crushed, babies spitted on tapu skewers.

Now, for the first time, I tasted them freshsweet and crunchy arid tenderin a restaurant on the outskirts of Kyoto called Kinsuitei that serves, in thatched pavilions along a shaded lake, a many-course lunch of fresh bamboo: bamboo grilled on bamboo skewers, bamboo shredded with seaweed, bamboo sliced like sashimi with a soy-based dipping sauce, bamboo floating in soup, bamboo simmered in broth, bamboo deep-fried as tempura, and bamboo chopped in rice.

This idiot was gripping his mount with muscularly bulging calves and thighs, and obviously meant to skewer the unarmoured Gael.

Many have informed me that I should have severed his knee tendons when I was behind him, just as many have chided me that I did not thrust below the edge of the backplate and skewer his kidney.

Many have informed me that I should have severed his knee tendons when I was behind him, just as many have raided me that I did not thrust below the edge of the backplate and skewer his kidney.

When the fire had burned down he skewered the backstraps on two greenwood sticks and propped the sticks with rocks over the coals.

A philosopher, a lover, not some baseborn ruffian who skewered men with a knife.