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Grilling   /grˈɪlɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Grill  v. t.  (past & past part. grilled; pres. part. grilling)  
1.
To broil on a grill or gridiron. "Boiling of men in caldrons, grilling them on gridirons."
2.
To torment, as if by broiling.
3.
To stamp or mark with a 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."





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"Grilling" Quotes from Famous Books



... that he would not get out of Tuck's hands until he knew every inch of the design of the great dam from the sluice gates and the drainage holes to the complete vertical section. He had no patience with mistakes and Jim took his grilling in silence, for the fat little man showed a deep knowledge of the technical side of dam building that reduced the cub engineer to ...
— Still Jim • Honore Willsie Morrow
... the marble court on the roof, where, canopied only by the sky and lighted by the moon, nocturnal durbars were held. Now, in the glare of the noonday sun, we fully appreciated the value of an evening sitting, for it was impossible to remain grilling there, even though the view of the silent city below, falling in tier after tier to the lake—the glare only broken here and there by patches of green garden—was superb. On either side rose the bare, rocky ridges, fort-crowned and looking formidable ...
— A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil • T. R. Swinburne
... cookery The principles of scientific cookery Fuels Making fires Care of fires Methods of cooking Roasting Broiling or grilling Baking The oven thermometer Boiling The boiling point of water How to raise the boiling point of water Action of hot and cold water upon foods Steaming Stewing Frying Evaporation Adding foods to boiling liquids ...
— Science in the Kitchen. • Mrs. E. E. Kellogg
... smooth oval-shaped seed of the mango family, it has a round, root-like and spiky core. The fruit, however, is of a delicious flavour, and when fully ripe melts in one's mouth. Whilst our native friends were grilling some birds, and getting us some young coco-nuts to drink, the captain and I, taking some short and heavy pieces of wood, began throwing them at the ripe fruit overhead. Suddenly my companion tripped ...
— The Call Of The South - 1908 • Louis Becke
... he iterated. "Reed, that's the damned cruelty of the whole position, for you and for us who care for you. It would have been any amount easier to have accepted things at their worst, months ago, than to keep on in this grilling indecision, fearing everything and yet hanging on to every vestige of hope for something better. Don't think I haven't been realizing that, my boy, ever since they brought you in and tucked you up in that infernal bed. It wouldn't have been one ...
— The Brentons • Anna Chapin Ray


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