Grilling

3 definitions found

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.]
     [1913 Webster]
     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.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     3. To stamp or mark with a grill.
        [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  grilling
       n : cooking by direct exposure to radiant heat (as over a fire
           or under a grill) [syn: {broil}, {broiling}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  69 Moby Thesaurus words for "grilling":
     ardent, baking, barbecuing, basting, blistering, boiling, braising,
     brewing, broil, broiling, burning, burning hot, canicular,
     catering, cookery, cooking, cross-examination, cross-interrogation,
     cross-questioning, cuisine, culinary science, direct examination,
     domestic science, ebullient, feverish, flushed, frying, heated,
     home economics, hot, hot as fire, hot as hell, inquisition,
     interrogation, like a furnace, like an oven, nutrition, overheated,
     overwarm, pan-broiling, parching, piping hot, poaching,
     police interrogation, red-hot, redirect examination, roasting,
     sauteing, scalding, scorching, searing, seething, shirring,
     simmering, sizzling hot, smoking hot, steeping, stewing, sudorific,
     sweating, sweaty, sweltering, sweltry, the grill, third degree,
     third-degree, toasting, torrid, white-hot