intransitive verb

1. to take a slanting or oblique course or direction; swerve or twist
2. to squint or glance sideways (at)

Etymology: ME skewen < NormFr eskiuer, altered < OFr eschiver: see eschew

transitive verb

1. to make slanting or oblique; set at a slant
2. to bias, distort, or pervert

adjective

1. turned aside or to one side; slanting; oblique
2. having a part or arrangement that is so turned, as in gearing having the shafts neither parallel nor intersecting
3. not symmetrical

noun

1. a slant or twist
2. a slanting part or movement