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Meaning of GRILL

Pronunciation:  gril

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. [n]  a framework of metal bars used as a partition or a grate; "he cooked hamburgers on the grill"
  2. [n]  a restaurant where food is cooked on a grill
  3. [v]  cook over a grill; "grill the sausages"
 
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 Synonyms: grille, grillroom, grillwork
 
 See Also: barbecue, broil, cook, cook out, eating house, eating place, frame, framework, framing, hibachi, oven broil, restaurant

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. \Grill\, n. [F. gril. See {Grill}, v. t.]
    1. A gridiron.
             [They] make grills of [wood] to broil their meat.
                                                   --Cotton.
    2. That which is broiled on a gridiron, as meat, fish, etc.
    
  2. \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.]
    1. To broil on a grill or gridiron.
             Boiling of men in caldrons, grilling them on
             gridirons.                            --Marvell.
    2. To torment, as if by broiling. --Dickens.
    
  3. \Grill\, n.
    1. A figure of crossed bars with interstices, such as those
       sometimes impressed upon postage stamps.
    2. A grillroom.
    
  4. \Grill\, v. t.
    To stamp or mark with a grill.
    
  5. \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.
    
 
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