skewer

A long pin, normally made of metal or wood, used to secure food during cooking.

Larissa, 107 miles from Salonica, is reached at 10.33, and there is a halt of 17 min. while vendors of oranges, cheese, meat on skewers, sweetmeats, and Turkish coffee do a brisk trade.

Food served on a skewer.

A scenario in which a piece attacks a more valuable piece which, if it moves aside, exposes a less valuable piece.

To impale on a skewer.

To attack a piece which has a less valuable piece behind it.

To severely mock or discredit.

Parody, in its purest form, is an act of both mockery and appreciation. True masters of the practice possess a bone-deep understanding of their targets; they skewer because they love—or at least, because they’ve done their homework.

A journalist outside 10 Downing Street on Thursday displaying one of the many tabloid covers skewering Mr. Johnson.

That which skews something.