Word Meaning

skew definition and meaning

adv. Awry; obliquely; askew.
a. Turned or twisted to one side; situated obliquely; skewed; -- chiefly used in technical phrases.
n. A stone at the foot of the slope of a gable, the offset of a buttress, or the like, cut with a sloping surface and with a check to receive the coping stones and retain them in place.
v. i. To walk obliquely; to go sidling; to lie or move obliquely.
v. i. To start aside; to shy, as a horse.
v. i. To look obliquely; to squint; hence, to look slightingly or suspiciously.
adv. To shape or form in an oblique way; to cause to take an oblique position.
adv. To throw or hurl obliquely.

Crossword clues for skew

- Distort
- Distort direction of ski centre seen in three directions
- Give an oblique direction to
- Slanting
- Turn aside or swerve
- Twist out of shape
- Unmask Ewan to reveal twist