Hypertext Webster Gateway: "grill"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Grill \Grill\, n.
1. A figure of crossed bars with interstices, such as those
sometimes impressed upon postage stamps.
2. A grillroom.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Grill \Grill\, v. t.
To stamp or mark with a grill.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Grill \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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.]
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
grill
n 1: a restaurant where food is cooked on a grill [syn: {grillroom}]
2: a framework of metal bars used as a partition or a grate;
"he cooked hamburgers on the grill" [syn: {grille}, {grillwork}]
v : cook over a grill; "grill the sausages"
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