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/grˈɪdˌaɪərn/ Listen

noun

Gridiron n.

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.

(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.

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Etymology of 'Gridiron'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Gridiron" Quotes from Famous Books

... spearmen I have not seen their match," the archer answered. "They can travel, too, with bag of meal and gridiron slung to their sword-belt, so that it is ill to follow them. There are scant crops and few beeves in the borderland, where a man must reap his grain with sickle in one fist and brown bill in the other. On the other hand, they are the sorriest archers that I have ever seen, and cannot so much as ...

— The White Company • Arthur Conan Doyle

... he being the first that ever invented the Art of Broiling Puddings, which he did to such Perfection, and so much to the King's likeing, (who had a mortal Aversion to Cold Pudding,) that he thereupon instituted him Knight of the Gridiron, and gave him a Gridiron of Gold, the Ensign of that Order, which he always wore as a Mark of his Sovereign's Favour; in short, Jack Pudding, or Sir John, grew to be all in all with good King John; he did nothing ...

— A Learned Dissertation on Dumpling (1726) • Anonymous

... be just the best ever?" Sid went on; "we beat 'em out at baseball, and on the gridiron; perhaps we might win another victory on the water. The Mohunk is a good stream for rowing, at ...

— Fred Fenton on the Crew - or, The Young Oarsmen of Riverport School • Allen Chapman

... carefully crept, having first thrown over it an old mackintosh as some small protection from the heavy evening dew and the early morning frost. So whether the ground proved rough as a nutmeg-grater or ribbed like a gridiron, I soon said good-night to the blushing stars above me and to the acres of slumbering soldiers all around. After that, few of us were in fit condition to judge whether there were ten degrees of frost or twelve till ...

— With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back • Edward P. Lowry

... read about humility and obedience not to protest at the way his clothing on his own saint's day, for which he had been made to wait nearly a year, was being carried through in such a hole in the corner fashion. But he fixed his mind upon the torments of the blessed archdeacon on the gridiron and ...

— The Altar Steps • Compton MacKenzie

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