串

joke; jest; funny story

spit; skewer

Slang

proxy (computer server)

skewering; skewered food

piercing (and killing; with a spear, etc.); impaling; running through

Food, cooking

grilling on a skewer; spit-roasting

Food, cooking

kushikatsu; deep-fried skewered meat and vegetables

bamboo skewer

Shinto

branch of a sacred tree (esp. sakaki) with paper or cotton strips attached (used as an offering)

sakaki (species of evergreen sacred to Shinto, Cleyera japonica)

skewered beef

Food, cooking

kushiage; deep-fried skewered meat and vegetables

metal spit; metal skewer

skewer; spit

Food, cooking

skewered dango

cash offering made on the occasion of one's visit to a shrine; money offering dedicated to the Shinto gods; fees for offering a branch of the sacred tree to the gods

dried persimmons on a skewer

suspicions; guess

staff to which shide are attached to make a go-hei

Martial arts

wooden target holder (in archery)

crossing boundaries (structural, organizational, etc.)

Food, cooking

fish skewer; skewered fish

Martial arts

wooden target holder (in archery)

Food, cooking

mackerel skewer

Internet slang; Computing

proxy server

skewering (fish, meat, etc.; for the purpose of grilling)

Shinto

reverentially offering a branch of the sacred tree

Computing

federated search