skewer

1. A long pin, normally made of metal or wood, used to secure food during cooking.
2. Food served on a skewer
3. A scenario in which a piece attacks a more valuable piece which, if it moves aside, reveals a less valuable piece. Compare pin.W

1. To impale on a skewer.
2. To attack a piece which has a less valuable piece behind it.
3. To severely mock or discredit.

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

   a skew arch

2. Of two lines in three-dimensional space: neither intersecting nor parallel.
3. Of a distribution: asymmetrical about its mean.

noun

That which skews something.