grid·i·ron

(grĭd′ī′ərn)

1. Football

a. The field of play.

b. The game itself.

2. A metal structure high above the stage of a theater, from which ropes or cables are strung to scenery and lights.

a. A flat framework of parallel metal bars used for broiling meat or fish.

b. An object resembling such a framework.

[Middle English gridirne, lattice, grill, alteration (influenced by iren, irne, iron) of gridere, alteration of gridel; see griddle.]

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gridiron

(ˈɡrɪdˌaɪən)

1. (Cookery) a utensil of parallel metal bars, used to grill meat, fish, etc

2. any framework resembling this utensil

3. (Theatre) a framework above the stage in a theatre from which suspended scenery, lights, etc, are manipulated

4. (American Football)

a. the field of play in American football

b. an informal name for American football

c. (as modifier): a gridiron hero.

Often shortened to: grid

[C13 gredire, perhaps variant (through influence of ire iron) of gredile griddle]

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grid•i•ron

(ˈgrɪdˌaɪ ərn)

n.

1. a football field.

2. a utensil consisting of parallel metal bars on which to broil meat or other food.

3. any framework or network resembling a gridiron.

4. a structure above the stage of a theater, from which scenery and the like are manipulated.

5. grid (def. 9).

v.t.

6. to mark off into squares.

[1250–1300; Middle English gridirne, gridir(e), gridere, alter. of gridel griddle]

gridiron

The football field, marked with white lines.

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun	1.	gridiron - a cooking utensil of parallel metal bars; used to grill fish or meat grid cooking utensil, cookware - a kitchen utensil made of material that does not melt easily; used for cooking
	2.	gridiron - the playing field on which football is played football field football stadium - a stadium where football games are held athletic field, playing area, playing field, field - a piece of land prepared for playing a game; "the home crowd cheered when Princeton took the field"

Translations

gril

graticola campo da football americano campo di football

gridiron

[ˈgrɪdˌaɪən] N

1. (Culin) → parrilla f

2. (US) (Sport) → campo m de fútbol (americano)

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

gridiron

[ˈgrɪdaɪə^rn] n → gril m

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

gridiron

(Cook) → (Brat)rost m

(US Ftbl) → Spielfeld nt

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

gridiron

[ˈgrɪdˌaɪən] n → graticola

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"Or even," said he, "if you was helped to knocking her up a new chain for the front door - or say a gross or two of shark-headed screws for general use - or some light fancy article, such as a toasting-fork when she took her muffins - or a gridiron when she took a sprat or such like--"

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I recognized it as one of two which had stood lashed against either rail of the Lady Jermyn's poop; there the bars had risen at right angles to the deck; now they lay horizontal, a gridiron six feet long-and my bed.

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Now, though the said chicken was then at roost in the stable, and required the several ceremonies of catching, killing, and picking, before it was brought to the gridiron, my landlady would nevertheless have undertaken to do all within the time; but the guest, being unfortunately admitted behind the scenes, must have been witness to the fourberie ; the poor woman was therefore obliged to confess that she had none in the house; "but, madam," said she, "I can get any kind of mutton in an instant from the butcher's."

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During these preparations his harangue was commented upon in no very measured terms; and one of the party, after denouncing him as a lying old son of a seacook who begrudged a fellow a few hours' liberty, exclaimed with an oath, 'But you don't bounce me out of my liberty, old chap, for all your yarns; for I would go ashore if every pebble on the beach was a live coal, and every stick a gridiron, and the cannibals stood ready to broil me on landing.'

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"This thing is becoming a regular broil, and it's time I took part in it," observed a big gridiron, coming forward.

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Rouletabille took the eggs, which had been brought to him in a bowl, and the meat which was on a dish, placed all carefully beside him in the chimney, unhooked a frying-pan and a gridiron, and began to beat up our omelette before proceeding to grill our beefsteak.

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He looked Billy over with an eye trained in measuring freshmen aspirants for the gridiron.

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Then it came out upon the other side, and there were more crashings and clatterings, and over it was flopped, like a pancake on a gridiron, and seized again and rushed back at you through another squeezer.

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Only I thought you had struck out a new idea, and invented a scheme that was going to revolutionize the timeworn and ineffectual methods of the--" He stopped, and turned to Blake, who was happy now that another had taken his place on the gridiron. "Blake, didn't you understand him to intimate that it wouldn't be necessary for you to hunt the old woman down?"

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They were quite close to him now, and crouching low, like tacklers on a gridiron. One of them raised his hand and lowered it, as though counting off seconds--one--two--three!

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"They can travel, too, with bag of meal and gridiron slung to their sword-belt, so that it is ill to follow them.

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We took turn about to lie on the naked rock, which was indeed like the position of that saint that was martyred on a gridiron; and it ran in my mind how strange it was, that in the same climate and at only a few days' distance, I should have suffered so cruelly, first from cold upon my island and now from heat upon this rock.

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