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A grating of thin parallel bars, similar to a gridiron.

An iron plate or pan used for cooking cakes.

A cake baked or fried on a griddle, esp. a thin batter cake, as of buckwheat or common flour.

To cut with a grating sound; to cut; to penetrate or pierce harshly; as, the griding sword. Milton. That through his thigh the mortal steel did gride. Spenser.

A color mixed of white, and red, or a gray violet. [Written also gredaline, grizelin.] Dryden.

A football field. 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.

See Langrage.

flat and roundish, commonly made of oatmeal or barley meal and baked on an iron plate, or griddle; -- used in Scotland and the northern counties of England. Jamieson. Bannock fluke, the turbot. [Scot.]

To dry or cure by exposure on a frame or gridiron. They use little or no salt, but barbecue their game and fish in the smoke. Stedman.

A gridiron. [Scot.]

A gridiron. [Scot.]

ng salmon or parr, in the stage in which it has transverse black bands, as if burned by a gridiron.

a bizet; below, it has a small face or collet, parallel to the table, connected with the gridle by a pavilion of elongated facets. It is thus distinguished from the rose diamond, which is entirely covered with facets on the surface, and is flat below. This snuffbox -- on the hinge see brilliants shine. Pope.…

To cook by direct exposure to heat over a fire, esp. upon a gridiron over coals.

A gridiron or other utensil used in broiling.

A wooden frame or grid for roasting, smoking, or drying meat over fire.

The triangular seed used, when ground, for griddle cakes, etc.

A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or pancake; as buckwheat cakes.

A kind of griddlecake of unleavened bread, used among the natives of India. [Anglo-Indian]

Having or wearing a cincture or gridle.