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Grill   /grɪl/   Listen
noun
Grill  n.  
1.
A gridiron. "(They) make grills of (wood) to broil their meat."
2.
That which is broiled on a gridiron, as meat, fish, etc.
3.
A figure of crossed bars with interstices, such as those sometimes impressed upon postage stamps.
4.
A grillroom.


verb
Grill  v. t.  (past & past part. grilled; pres. part. grilling)  
1.
To broil on a grill or gridiron. "Boiling of men in caldrons, grilling them on gridirons."
2.
To torment, as if by broiling.
3.
To stamp or mark with a grill.


Grill  v. i.  To undergo the process of being grilled, or broiled; to broil. "He had grilled in the heat, sweated in the rains."





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"Grill" Quotes from Famous Books



... In the grill-room of a Broadway hotel he was obliged to wait some minutes for the fulfillment of his orders and he spent the time in reading and studying the little grey note. When his luncheon was served he ate with ...
— Active Service • Stephen Crane
... the business of the day. Once, twice, and thrice I tried to slide the subject in, but was discouraged by the stoic apathy of Rufe, and beaten down before the pouring verbiage of his wife. There is nothing of the Indian brave about me, and I began to grill with impatience. At last, like a highway robber, I cornered Hanson, and bade him stand and deliver his business. Thereupon he gravely rose, as though to hint that this was not a proper place, nor the subject one suitable for squaws, and I, following his example, led him ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition - Vol. 2 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson
... the chine-bone from the breast, and set it on to stew with a pint of gravy. When the bones would draw out, put it on the gridiron to grill; and then lay it in a dish on ...
— The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, • Mary Eaton
... expression of my mother-in-law's back as I followed her through the glittering grill room of the Sydenham told me that our chances for having a pleasant evening ...
— Revelations of a Wife - The Story of a Honeymoon • Adele Garrison
... slowly through the single hole in the roof, and at last he could stand it no longer, and crept out into the night until his fire should have burned down to a core of red ashes over which he could grill ...
— A Maid of the Silver Sea • John Oxenham


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