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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



... To grill the gizzard and rump, No. 538. Save a quart of the liquor the turkey was boiled in; this, with the bones and trimmings, &c. will make good gravy ...
— The Cook's Oracle; and Housekeeper's Manual • William Kitchiner
... Boyne." Gilbert slapped me on the back affectionately. After all, he hadn't changed so much in his four years over there; I began to see more than traces of the enthusiastic youngster to whom I used to spin detective yarns in the grill at the St. Francis or on the rocks by the Cliff House. "Sure, we'll keep it out of the papers. Suits me. I'd rather not pose as the fool soon ...
— The Million-Dollar Suitcase • Alice MacGowan
... later, as Hillard and Merrihew were dining together at the club, the steward came into the grill-room and swept his placid eye over the groups of diners. Singling out Hillard, he came solemnly down to the corner table and laid a blue letter at the side of ...
— The Lure of the Mask • Harold MacGrath
... last phrase he had now confessed to her the existence of an air-raid. He knew that he was not behaving with the maximum of sagacity. There were, for example, hotels with subterranean grill-rooms close by, and there were similar refuges where danger would be less than in the street, though the street was narrow and might be compared to a trench. And yet he had said, "We shall be quite safe here." In others he would have ...
— The Pretty Lady • Arnold E. Bennett
... our seats. I was hungry, and the dinner good. I ate of everything, but can only recall an excellent grill of salmon and a roast haunch of venison: the reason being that Lady Glynn kept me in continued talk. Poor lady!—I had almost said, poor child!—for her desperate artlessness became the more apparent to me the more ...
— Corporal Sam and Other Stories • A. T. Quiller-Couch


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