embrocher — meaning in English

English meaning

• skewer noun A thin metal or wooden rod used to hold pieces of food together while cooking.
• spit noun A thin rod used to skewer and rotate meat while it cooks over a fire.

Senses

embrocher is used for these senses in English:

• run through (transitive, idiomatic) To impale a person with a blade, usually a sword.
• skewer To impale on a skewer.
• spit (transitive) To use a spit to cook; to attend to food that is cooking on a spit.

skewer — full definition

1. noun A thin metal or wooden rod used to hold pieces of food together while cooking.
2. verb To pierce something through with a skewer or similar pointed object.
3. verb To sharply criticize or mock someone or something.

spit — full definition

1. noun A thin rod used to skewer and rotate meat while it cooks over a fire.
2. noun Saliva, especially when spat out.
3. noun A narrow strip of sand or land jutting out into water.
4. verb To forcefully eject saliva from the mouth.
5. verb To rain very lightly.

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