Crossword clues for gridiron
gridiron
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gridiron \Grid"i`ron\, n. [OE. gredire, gredirne, from the same source as E. griddle, but the ending was confused with E. iron. See Griddle.]
A grated iron utensil for broiling flesh and fish over coals.
(Naut.) An openwork frame on which vessels are placed for examination, cleaning, and repairs.
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(Sport) A football field; -- so called because of the resemblance of the parallel marked yard lines to a gridiron[1].
Gridiron pendulum. See under Pendulum.
Gridiron valve (Steam Engine), a slide valve with several parallel perforations corresponding to openings in the seat on which the valve moves.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
cooking utensil, early 14c., griderne, alteration (by association with iron) of gridire (late 13c.), a variant of gridil (see griddle). Confusion of "l" and "r" was common in Norman dialect. Also a medieval instrument of torture by fire. As the word for a U.S. football field, by 1896, for its lines.
Wiktionary
n. 1 An instrument of torture on which people were secured before being burned by fire. (from 13th c.) 2 An iron rack or grate used for broiling flesh and fish over coals. (from 14th c.) 3 Any object resembling the rack or grate. (from 15th c.) 4 (context nautical English) An openwork frame on which vessels are placed for examination, cleaning, and repairs. 5 (context American football English) The field on which American football is played. (from 19th c.) 6 (context uncountable English) American football. 7 (context Australia and New Zealand English) A generic term for American football and Canadian football, particularly when used to distinguish from other codes of football.
WordNet
n. a cooking utensil of parallel metal bars; used to grill fish or meat [syn: grid]
the playing field on which football is played [syn: football field]
Wikipedia
Gridiron may refer to:
- Gridiron (cooking), a type of cooking grill
- Gridiron, Sonora, a steamboat landing on the lower Colorado River after 1854
Gridiron is a science fiction novel written by British author Philip Kerr. It is a story about a highly technical building (nicknamed The Gridiron), which becomes self-aware and tries to kill everyone inside, confusing real life with a video game.
Gridiron: Fantasy Football was a football-themed collectible card game first published in 1995 by Upper Deck.
Usage examples of "gridiron".
She pushed herself up and returned to the parapet in time to see the abseiling rope snap and the cradle it had been restraining catapulted back across the facade of the Gridiron.
When they were satisfied, they dragged the gridiron, Jack and all, down the passageway a short distance and through a curtain of mildewy sailcloth.
At the top there was a primitive gridiron of loose nibong bars, and the river swirled so rapidly and dizzily below that I was obliged ignominiously to hold on to a Chinaman in order to reach the causeway safely.
The baking being once over, the sowans pot succeeds the gridiron, full of new sowans, which are to be given to the family, agreeably to custom, this day in their beds.
Albert Baston, of Minnesota, and many other gridiron and diamond heroes, who were attracted to this branch of the service by the opportunities offered for quick action.
Split a mackerel down the back, take out the backbone, sprinkle with salt, and broil on a buttered gridiron.
Ishmael left the Gridiron and wandered abroad in the electronic universe, seeing the sights, listening to the sounds, admiring the architecture of different systems and collecting the data that were the souvenirs of his unticketed travel in the everywhere and nowhere world.
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.
Women journalists picketed the Gridiron Club in Washington, which excluded women.
In the brief time of his incumbency, I have no doubt that the shockingly public moral turpitude of the team has made a worse name for what I was once proud to claim as my Alma Mater than a lifetime of gridiron victories can possibly offset.
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.
There was the convoy - six East Indiamen with their painted ports like men of war, all flying the gridiron flag of the Honourable Company and one sporting a broad pendant for all the world like a king's commodore.
There was the convoy six East Indiamen with their painted ports like men of war, all flying the gridiron flag of the Honourable Company and one sporting a broad pendant for all the world like a king's commodore.
But nothing really changed: the LHS cagers didn't do much better than the LHS gridiron warriors - the only bright spot was Lenny Barongg, a three-sport man whose major one was basketball.
If you will allow me to take the liberty of remarking that there are few comestibles better, in their way, than a Devil, and that I believe, with a little division of labour, we could accomplish a good one if the young person in attendance could produce a gridiron, I would put it to you, that this little misfortune may be easily repaired.