Toasting
[tost]
Definition
(noun.) cooking to a brown crispiness over a fire or on a grill; 'proper toasting should brown both sides of a piece of bread'.
Checker: Trent--From WordNet
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Toast
(-) a. & n. from Toast, v.
Checked by Dick
Examples
- And if it was a toasting-fork, you'd go into brass and do yourself no credit. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- She placed on the table a glass of new milk, a plate of something which looked not unlike leather, and a utensil which resembled a toasting-fork. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- She had seen Agnes, she told me while she was toasting. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- No, it's the toasting fork, with Mother's shoe on it instead of the bread. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Watch-guards and toasting-forks were alike at a discount, and pencil-cases and sponges were a drug in the market. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- So did the Jew himself, toasting-fork in hand. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- The laboratory witnessed high times that night, for all were in the best of humor, and many a bottle was drained in toasting the health of Edison and the aldermen. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- He took the toasting-fork and sausage from me as he spoke, and set forth the Aged's breakfast neatly on a little tray. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
Editor: Matt