gridiron
Speech parts
1. gridiron - Noun
2. gridiron - Verb
Meaning
A grated iron utensil for broiling flesh and fish over coals.
An openwork frame on which vessels are placed for examination, cleaning, and repairs.
A football field.
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Examples
The playing field is more sacred than the stock exchange, more blessed than Capital Hill or the vaults of Fort Knox. The diamond and the gridiron - and, to a lesser degree, the court, the rink, the track, and the ring - embody the American dream of Eden.
1905 had been a bloody year on the gridiron; the Chicago Tribune reported 18 players had been killed and 159 seriously injured that season.
Click here for more information. main check Jack French Kemp (July 13, 1935 – May 2, 2009) was an American politician and a professional gridiron football player.
And the same injustice applies to martyrdom—I must always be denied the gridiron and the Cross, because nobody in his right mind would dream of crucifying the bourgeois Gino.
Grilling is normally not technically a roast, since a grill (gridiron) is used.
A surrounding gridiron street system allowed for opened shopping areas, far from the dense and overcrowded crannies of the old.