Grill
[grɪl] or [ɡrɪl]
Definition
(noun.) a framework of metal bars used as a partition or a grate; 'he cooked hamburgers on the grill'.
(verb.) cook over a grill; 'grill the sausages'.
(verb.) examine thoroughly; 'the student was grilled for two hours on the subject of phonology'.
Editor: Rae--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) A gridiron.
(v. t.) That which is broiled on a gridiron, as meat, fish, etc.
(n.) To broil on a grill or gridiron.
(n.) To torment, as if by broiling.
Editor: Whitney
Definition
v.t. to broil on a gridiron: to torment.—v.i. to undergo torment to be in a broil.—n. a grated appliance for broiling meat &c. a gridiron.—ns. Grill′āde anything grilled or broiled on a gridiron; Grill′āge a construction of cross-beams supporting an erection on marshy grounds.—adj. Grilled embossed with small rectangular indentations.—n. Grill′-room a restaurant where beefsteaks &c. are grilled to one's order.
Inputed by Bertha
Examples
- I saw the doors of the elevator closed, and the grill shut and the fourth-floor button pushed by the porter. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- The cook looked as if she could grill Mr. Superintendent alive on a furnace, and the other women looked as if they could eat him when he was done. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- The accompanying illustration (Fig. 13) is of a rectangular grill, made of pressed steel and highly polished, designed to operate from any electric light socket. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- This little oven fits either the radiant stove or the round radiant grill. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- This grill, you will note, is round, which particularly adapts it to the use of utensils ordinarily found in the kitchen of the average home. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Of the same manufacture is the radiant grill shown in Fig. 14. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- ELECTRIC RECTANGULAR GRILL] Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Bring me a grilled bone. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Ah, here comes my grilled bone. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Perhaps they scorched and grilled it, but they could not have done much more, because they had no cooking implements. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I think it describes the smell of grilled bone. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- You are much too pretty, as well as too good, to be grilled alive in Calcutta. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- What would you think of me if I came down two hours after every one else and ordered grilled bone? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Lawrence Grills, exhorting that gentleman to save the brand who honoured the letter from the burning. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- These open-coil grills are also very efficient as toasters, the bread being placed on top of the grating, which protects the coils from injury. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
Edited by Daisy