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grill⋅er

[gril-er]
–noun
1. a person who grills food, esp. as a cook in a restaurant.
2. an appliance for grilling food.

Origin:
1865–70; grill 1 + -er 1
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grill   (grĭl)   
tr.v.   grilled, grill·ing, grills
  1. To broil on a gridiron.

  2. To torture or afflict as if by broiling.

  3. Informal To question relentlessly; cross-examine.

  4. To mark or emboss with a gridiron.

n.  
  1. A cooking surface of parallel metal bars; a gridiron.

  2. Food cooked by broiling or grilling.

  3. A grillroom.

  4. A series of marks grilled or embossed on a surface.

  5. Variant of grille.


[French griller, from gril, gridiron, from Old French greille, from Latin crātīcula; see griddle.]
grill'er n.
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