ROASTING • DICCIONARIO INGLES.COM • Definition of Roasting

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/rˈoʊstɪŋ/ Listen

noun

Roasting n. A. & n., from Roast, v.

Roasting ear, an ear of Indian corn at that stage of development when it is fit to be eaten roasted.

Roasting jack, a machine for turning a spit on which meat is roasted.

verb

Roast v. t. (past & past part. roasted; pres. part. roasting)

To cook by exposure to radiant heat before a fire; as, to roast meat on a spit, or in an oven open toward the fire and having reflecting surfaces within; also, to cook in a close oven.

To cook by surrounding with hot embers, ashes, sand, etc.; as, to roast a potato in ashes. "In eggs boiled and roasted there is scarce difference to be discerned."

To dry and parch by exposure to heat; as, to roast coffee; to roast chestnuts, or peanuts.

Hence, to heat to excess; to heat violently; to burn. "Roasted in wrath and fire."

(Metal.) To dissipate by heat the volatile parts of, as ores.

To banter severely. (Colloq.)

Roast v. i.

To cook meat, fish, etc., by heat, as before the fire or in an oven. "He could roast, and seethe, and broil, and fry."

To undergo the process of being roasted.

See images of 'Roasting'

Etymology of 'Roasting'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

"Roasting" Quotes from Famous Books

... found Auntie Mogs sitting before the fire in the living-room, roasting chestnuts, while Martha stood in the doorway and offered ...

— Phyllis - A Twin • Dorothy Whitehill

... about, crazy man?" rumbled the troll-wife. She turned to the girl. "Heap the fire, Hildigund, and set up the roasting spit. Tonight ...

— The Valor of Cappen Varra • Poul William Anderson

... corn, roasting in the ashes, or fresh fish sizzling on hot stones gave a charm to the learning of wood-lore that it never could have possessed otherwise. At first with the heedlessness of city-bred boys, they crashed through the under-brush with ...

— The Little Colonel's Chum: Mary Ware • Annie Fellows Johnston

... they danced like maniacs round the fire; looking, in fact, like so many wild Indians, dancing round their roasting victims, or some demons ...

— Varney the Vampire - Or the Feast of Blood • Thomas Preskett Prest

... setting it again he broke the cord, and driven by hunger went forth, revolver in hand. He saw fresh deer tracks, and was lucky enough to find his quarry, steal close and shoot it. His hunger made him reckless and he lit a fire, roasting the meat on planted sticks. But the birds came and wheeled about overhead and the specks of moving birds in the sky can be ...

— Treasure and Trouble Therewith - A Tale of California • Geraldine Bonner

More quotes...