A long, thin pointed rod used to hold meat or vegetables together while cooking.
From Dutch 'schuiver' or related Germanic words meaning 'to push or shove.' The tool's purpose of pushing things together gave it this name in the 16th century.
Skewers are one of humanity's oldest cooking tools—ancient peoples discovered that threading food on sticks made it easier to cook over open flames, and the basic design hasn't changed much in thousands of years.
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