The entire village gathers there on Easter Tuesday for the roasting of the "souvla" (meat skewer).

Gazing at the tub, she heard drawers being quickly opened and shut, then Benton was at her side holding out a meat skewer.

They were a VC invention, a small sharp wooden spike like a meat skewer, coated with buffalo dung, which is poisonous.

Meanwhile, in a cellar below the kitchen, in a drab gray alcove small enough to make men crouch, an 18-inch meat skewer hung from a hook.

For the Speed Bump, Daniel & César had to cut pieces of meat and then make ten meat skewers each.

The Dendeng is sometimes put in a stick and eaten the same way as a satay(meat skewer).

Stuff from the kitchen: butcher knife; meat skewer; cleaver.

For a finale, the professor brought a thin meat skewer from his pocket and deliberately pushed it through his subject's cheek.

She pulled out a needle the size of a meat skewer, and began to top it off in the fiendish way that needles are topped off.

The gruesome picture, below right, also features meat skewers stuck into the hearts of her children, and shows better than words the hatred she feels for him.