grill
noun
[ ɡrɪl ]
• a device on a cooker that radiates heat downwards for cooking food.
• "place under a hot grill"
grill
verb
• cook (food) using a grill.
• "grill the trout for five minutes"
• subject (someone) to intense questioning or interrogation.
• "my father grilled us about what we had been doing"
Origin:
mid 17th century: from French gril (noun), griller (verb), from Old French graille ‘grille’.
grill
noun
• variant spelling of grille.
grille
noun
• a grating or screen of metal bars or wires, placed in front of something as protection or to allow ventilation or discreet observation.
• "I looked through the grille into the church"
Origin:
mid 17th century: from French, from medieval Latin, craticula, diminutive of cratis ‘hurdle’; related to crate, grate2, and griddle.
