From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
grill
n 1: a restaurant where food is cooked on a grill [syn:
grillroom, grill]
2: a framework of metal bars used as a partition or a grate; "he
cooked hamburgers on the grill" [syn: grill, grille,
grillwork]
v 1: cook over a grill; "grill the sausages"
2: examine thoroughly; "the student was grilled for two hours on
the subject of phonology"
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
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.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Grill \Grill\, n. [F. gril. See Grill, v. t.]
1. A gridiron.
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[They] make grills of [wood] to broil their meat.
--Cotton.
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2. That which is broiled on a gridiron, as meat, fish, etc.
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3. A figure of crossed bars with interstices, such as those
sometimes impressed upon postage stamps.
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4. A grillroom.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
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.]
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1. To broil on a grill or gridiron.
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Boiling of men in caldrons, grilling them on
gridirons. --Marvell.
2. To torment, as if by broiling. --Dickens.
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3. To stamp or mark with a grill.
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