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Skew

verb

(past & past part. skewed; pres. part. skewing)

Turn or place at an angle.

adjective

Having an oblique or slanting direction or position. Synonym: skewed.

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"Skew" Quotes from Famous Books

... dunno's we're goin' to make much by havin' sech a crowd," Lem Parraday complained. "With Marm sick nothin' seems ter go right. Sech waste in the kitchen I never did see! An' if I say a word, or look skew-jawed at them women, they threaten ter up an' leave me in ...

— How Janice Day Won • Helen Beecher Long

... progress, and it looks (For the straight line is getting very skew) As if our forces might surround VON KLUCK'S. Meantime, on right ...

— Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, October 21, 1914 • Various

... a skew arch over the River Dochart, on the Killin Railway, Scotland. There were 5 arches, each of 30 ft. span on the square or 42 ft. on the skew, the skew being 45. The piers were of rubble concrete. The concrete in the arch was wheeled 300 ft. on a trestle, and dumped onto the ...

— Concrete Construction - Methods and Costs • Halbert P. Gillette

... making progress, and it looks (For the straight line is getting very skew) As if our forces might surround VON KLUCK'S. Meantime, on right wing there is ...

— Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, October 21, 1914 • Various

... across it in the twinkling of a bedpost, by a handsome viaduct of thirty arches on the skew principle," said Stagman. ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 367, May 1846 • Various

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