GRIDIRON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gridiron mean? 

• GRIDIRON (noun)
  The noun GRIDIRON has 2 senses:

1. a cooking utensil of parallel metal bars; used to grill fish or meat

2. the playing field on which football is played

  Familiarity information: GRIDIRON used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GRIDIRON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A cooking utensil of parallel metal bars; used to grill fish or meat

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

grid; gridiron

Hypernyms ("gridiron" is a kind of...):

cooking utensil; cookware (a kitchen utensil made of material that does not melt easily; used for cooking)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The playing field on which football is played

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

football field; gridiron

Hypernyms ("gridiron" is a kind of...):

athletic field; field; playing area; playing field (a piece of land prepared for playing a game)

Holonyms ("gridiron" is a part of...):

football stadium (a stadium where football games are held)

 Context examples 

There was a gridiron in the pantry, on which my morning rasher of bacon was cooked.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

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

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"Saint Laurence on a gridiron," added Laurie, blandly finishing the sentence.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

With which he took the fork from my unresisting hand, and bent over the gridiron, as if his whole attention were concentrated on it.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Meanwhile he took the mutton off the gridiron, and gravely handed it round.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The division of labour to which he had referred was this:—Traddles cut the mutton into slices; Mr. Micawber (who could do anything of this sort to perfection) covered them with pepper, mustard, salt, and cayenne; I put them on the gridiron, turned them with a fork, and took them off, under Mr. Micawber's direction; and Mrs. Micawber heated, and continually stirred, some mushroom ketchup in a little saucepan.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“It's not a great deal towards the furnishing,” said Traddles, “but it's something. The table-cloths, and pillow-cases, and articles of that kind, are what discourage me most, Copperfield. So does the ironmongery—candle-boxes, and gridirons, and that sort of necessaries—because those things tell, and mount up. However, “wait and hope!”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

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.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

What with the novelty of this cookery, the excellence of it, the bustle of it, the frequent starting up to look after it, the frequent sitting down to dispose of it as the crisp slices came off the gridiron hot and hot, the being so busy, so flushed with the fire, so amused, and in the midst of such a tempting noise and savour, we reduced the leg of mutton to the bone.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)