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gridiron
[ grid-ahy-ern ]
noun
- a football field.
- a utensil consisting of parallel metal bars on which to broil meat or other food.
- any framework or network resembling a gridiron.
- a structure above the stage of a theater, from which hung scenery and the like are manipulated.
verb (used with object)
- to mark off into squares or design with a network of squares.
gridiron
/ ˈɡrɪdˌaɪən /
noun
- a utensil of parallel metal bars, used to grill meat, fish, etc
- any framework resembling this utensil
- a framework above the stage in a theatre from which suspended scenery, lights, etc, are manipulated
- the field of play in American football
- an informal name for American football
- ( as modifier )
a gridiron hero
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of gridiron1
Example Sentences
Saint Lawrence, burned over an iron grill, stands with a gridiron.
Defensive chairs have a protruding bumper specifically designed to “hook” and hold an attacker, just as you might tackle or block in conventional rugby or on a gridiron.
Even the fact that he is taking over a downtrodden program only gives Kelley another chance to upend traditional notions of how things normally proceed on the gridiron.
Shortly after capping its best season in program history on the gridiron, Alabama is in the midst of its best season in program history on the hardwood.
That may be how the Tide’s season ends, but for now, Oats and his players have dreams of a national championship, just like their gridiron brethren.
This opponent is like no other Rodgers has to face on the gridiron.
Back then, every single newspaper, website, and news show (even the fake news shows) was awash in gridiron scandal.
The senator, a college gridiron star, has a coldly Machiavellian widow.
Doing well at the Gridiron is a rite of passage that not everybody survives.
How an economist views the game and the evidence from XLVII years on the gridiron.
So saying he proceeded to place the red herrings on a gridiron, as if he were the recognised cook of the establishment.
The bourgeois of Nantes turned around sharply and saw the heaped-up combustibles under the gridiron beginning to take fire.
The corpse of Bezenecq the Rich was chained to the gridiron above the dying embers of the coal fire.
Approaching Isoline, he struck against the gridiron, where lay the corpse of the bourgeois of Nantes.
The unhappy Coquerico stripped of all his feathers, the soldier took him and laid him on the gridiron.
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