grill
• noun Brit. 1 a device on a cooker that radiates heat downwards for cooking food. 2 a gridiron used for cooking food on an open fire. 3 a dish of food cooked using a grill. 4 a restaurant serving grilled food. 5 variant form of GRILLE. • verb 1 cook with a grill. 2 informal subject to intense questioning or interrogation. — ORIGIN Old French graille ‘grille’, from Latin craticula ‘small hurdle’; related to CRATE, GRATE2, and GRIDDLE.
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