subs. (American).—1.  A sword. Hence, as verb. = (1) to run through; and (2) to impose on.

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  1848.  DURIVAGE, Stray Subjects, 147. Our enterprising journal, which had purchased the news, in company with its sharp friends, had been SKEWERED.

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  2.  (common).—A pen. Fr. une griffarde (or griffonante).

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