Gridiron
['grɪdaɪən]
Definition
(n.) A grated iron utensil for broiling flesh and fish over coals.
(n.) An openwork frame on which vessels are placed for examination, cleaning, and repairs.
(n.) A football field.
Edited by Clare
Definition
n. a frame of iron bars for broiling flesh or fish over the fire: a frame of wood or iron cross-beams to support a ship during repairs.—v.t. to cover with parallel bars or lines.—n. Grid a grating of parallel bars: a gridiron: (elect.) a battery-plate somewhat like a grating esp. a zinc plate in a primary battery or a lead plate in a secondary or storage battery.
Typist: Owen
Examples
- Saint Laurence on a gridiron, added Laurie, blandly finishing the sentence. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- There's a dishful, then, and there's the gridiron. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Meanwhile he took the mutton off the gridiron, and gravely handed it round. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- So does the ironmongery--candle-boxes, and gridirons, and that sort of necessaries--because those things tell, and mount up. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
Checker: Melanie