skewen

• IPA^(key): /ˈskiu̯ən/

Borrowed from Old Northern French escuer, from Frankish *skiuhijan; a doublet of eschewen.

• skewe

skewen (third-person singular simple present skeweth, present participle skewende, skewynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle skewed) (rare)

1. To escape or flee; to avoid harm.
2. To move or run diagonally.

• English: skew
• Scots: skew, skyow

• “skeuen, v.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

From skew (“sky”) +‎ -en (infinitival suffix).

skewen (third-person singular simple present skeweth, present participle skewende, skewynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle skewed)

1. (hapax legomenon, of a waterbody) To darken due to cloud cover.

• “skeuen, v.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.