grill

Noun · Verb

WordNet 3.0

Noun (2)

  1. a restaurant where food is cooked on a grillSynonyms: grillroom
  2. a framework of metal bars used as a partition or a grate“he cooked hamburgers on the grill”Synonyms: grillegrillwork

Verb (2)

  1. cook over a grill“grill the sausages”
  2. examine thoroughly“the student was grilled for two hours on the subject of phonology”
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Grill \Grill\, n. [F. gril. See Grill, v. t.]

1.A gridiron. [1913 Webster]

[They] make grills of [wood] to broil their meat.— Cotton.[1913 Webster]

2.That which is broiled on a gridiron, as meat, fish, etc. [1913 Webster]

3.A figure of crossed bars with interstices, such as those sometimes impressed upon postage stamps. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

4.A grillroom. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]


Grill \Grill\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Grilled; p. pr. & vb. n. Grilling.] [F. griller, fr. gril gridiron, OF. gra["i]l, L. craticulum for craticula fine hurdlework, a small gridiron, dim. of crates hurdle. See Grate, n.] [1913 Webster]

1.To broil on a grill or gridiron. [1913 Webster]

Boiling of men in caldrons, grilling them on gridirons.— Marvell.

2.To torment, as if by broiling. --Dickens. [1913 Webster]

3.To stamp or mark with a grill. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]


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. --Kipling. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

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