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| a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes. |
| a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc. |
| grill1 (ɡrɪl) | |
| —vb | |
| 1. | Usual US and Canadian word: broil to cook (meat, fish, etc) by direct heat, as under a grill or over a hot fire, or (of meat, fish, etc) to be cooked in this way |
| 2. | (tr; usually passive) to torment with or as if with extreme heat: the travellers were grilled by the scorching sun |
| 3. | informal (tr) to subject to insistent or prolonged questioning |
| —n | |
| 4. | a device with parallel bars of thin metal on which meat, fish, etc, may be cooked by a fire; gridiron |
| 5. | a device on a cooker that radiates heat downwards for grilling meat, fish, etc |
| 6. | food cooked by grilling |
| 7. | See grillroom |
| [C17: from French gril gridiron, from Latin crātīcula fine wickerwork; see | |
| 'griller1 | |
| —n | |