Meanings
comparative more skewerlike · superlative most skewerlike
- Like a skewer; long, thin, and sharp.
The long, skewerlike dagger flashed and fell. The dealer struggled like a hen, striking his temple on the shelf, and then tumbled on the floor in a heap.
1885, Robert Louis Stevenson, Markheim
Origin
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