grill Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a restaurant where food is cooked on a grill
    grillroom.
  2. noun a framework of metal bars used as a partition or a grate
    grillwork; grille.
    • he cooked hamburgers on the grill
  3. verb cook over a grill
    • grill the sausages
  4. verb examine thoroughly
    • the student was grilled for two hours on the subject of phonology

WordNet

Grill noun
Etymology
F. gril. See Grill, v. t.
Definitions
  1. A gridiron.
    [They] make grills of [wood] to broil their meat. Cotton.
  2. That which is broiled on a gridiron, as meat, fish, etc.
Grill transitive verb
Etymology
F. griller, fr. gril gridiron, OF. graïl, L. craticulum for craticula fine hurdlework, a small gridiron, dim. of crates hurdle. See Grate, n.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Grilled ; present participle & verbal noun Grilling
Definitions
  1. To broil on a grill or gridiron. Boiling of men in caldrons, grilling them on gridirons. Marvell.
  2. To torment, as if by broiling. Dickens.

Webster 1913