gridiron; barbecue; interrogate: The detective will grill him for hours to get to the facts.
grille – a metal framework; perforated screen: The entrance had a decorative iron grille.
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.
1. A cooking surface of parallel metal bars; a gridiron.
2. Food cooked by broiling or grilling.
3. An informal restaurant or a room in a restaurant where grilled foods are served. Also called grillroom.
4. A series of marks grilled or embossed on a surface.
[French griller, from gril, gridiron, from Old French greille, from Latin crātīcula; see griddle.]
1. (Cookery) 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. Usual US and Canadian word: broil
2. (tr; usually passive) to torment with or as if with extreme heat: the travellers were grilled by the scorching sun.
3. (tr) informal to subject to insistent or prolonged questioning
4. (Cookery) a device with parallel bars of thin metal on which meat, fish, etc, may be cooked by a fire; gridiron
5. (Cookery) a device on a cooker that radiates heat downwards for grilling meat, fish, etc
6. (Cookery) food cooked by grilling
7. (Cookery) See grillroom
[C17: from French gril gridiron, from Latin crātīcula fine wickerwork; see grille]
(Automotive Engineering) a variant spelling of grille
1. an apparatus topped by a grated metal framework for cooking food over direct heat, as a gas or charcoal fire.
2. a metal grate for broiling food over a fire; gridiron.
3. a dish of grilled meat, fish, vegetables, etc.
5. a group of small pyramidal marks, embossed or impressed in parallel rows on certain postage stamps to prevent erasure of cancellation marks.
7. to subject to severe and persistent cross-examination or questioning.
9. to mark with a series of parallel bars like those of a grill.
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