WordNet
n. a pit where wood or charcoal is burned to make a bed of hot coals suitable for barbecuing meat
Usage examples of "barbecue pit".
Over behind the barns there was always another barbecue pit, where the house servants and the coachmen and maids of the guests had their own feast of hoecakes and yams and chitterlings, that dish of hog entrails so dear to negro hearts, and, in season, watermelons enough to satiate.
There was a light wind, and the elms near the barbecue pit whispered restlessly overhead.
We had passed by an excavation-the barbecue pit as I learned after- wards-with freshly dug earth and picks and shovels lying there.
He was mad at everything -- the bandits, the rain, and the police cruiser that had fallen into his barbecue pit.
Philip Halpern nervously carried the paper bag as he wound through the cluttered backyard to a greasy stone barbecue pit piled high with cinders and burnt steak and chicken bones.
By the barbecue pit, standing upright, was the long two-pronged fork that they used to lift the broiling steaks.
Shasa was delighted with their bargain, and though he seldom drank more than a glassful, this afternoon he finished the rest of the Riesling while he and the boys cooked their lunch on the barbecue pit.
Clete walked from the Toyota, wheeled Dio's father by a barbecue pit, lighted a bag of charcoal, and began forking a box of steaks onto the grill.
He hefted an armload of them and went outside to the snow-covered back yard, where there was a barbecue pit lined with concrete blocks.
The barbecue pit had been tipped over and the charcoal had burned a big black spot on the lawn.
To one side of the entrance to the movie theater an old man had a portable barbecue pit made out of a perforated washtub attached to the chassis of a baby carriage.