grill

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To broil on a gridiron.
2. v. To torture or afflict as if by broiling.
3. v. Informal To question relentlessly; cross-examine.
4. v. To mark or emboss with a gridiron.
5. n. A cooking surface of parallel metal bars; a gridiron.
6. n. Food cooked by broiling or grilling.
7. n. A grillroom.
8. n. A series of marks grilled or embossed on a surface.
9. n. Variant of grille.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To make angry; provoke.
2. To terrify; cause to tremble.
3. To tremble; shiver.
4. To snarl; snap.
5. Harsh; rough; severe; cruel.
6. n. Harm.
7. n. A grated utensil for broiling meat, etc., over a fire; a gridiron.
8. To broil on or as on a grill or gridiron.
9. To undergo broiling; be in a broil.
10. n. Faint and short white lines or cross-bars on some flat surfaces of engraving.
11. n. In electricity, the grid of a storage cell.
12. To mark or stamp with a series of parallel lines like a grill; specifically, in line-engraving, to break up (a too flat surface) with short bars of faint white lines sometimes crossed at right angles, as may be seen in some forms of postage-stamps.

Wiktionary

1. adj. harsh, rough, severe; cruel
2. n. harm
3. v. transitive, Scotland, US To make angry; provoke.
4. v. transitive To terrify; make tremble.
5. v. intransitive To tremble; shiver.
6. v. intransitive, Northern England, Scotland To snarl; snap.
7. n. A rack; a grid of wire or a sheet of material with a pattern of holes or slots, usually used to protect something while allowing the passage of air and liquids. Typical uses: to allow air through a fan while preventing fingers or objects from passing; to allow people to talk to somebody, while preventing attack.
8. n. On a vehicle, a slotted cover as above, to protect and hide the radiator, while admitting air to cool it.
9. n. A device comprising a source of radiant heat and a means of holding food near it, to cook it; a barbecue; a griddle.
10. n. colloquial A type of jewelry worn on the front teeth; by extension, the front teeth regarded collectively.
11. v. To cook food on a grill; to barbecue.
12. v. Australia, New Zealand, UK To cook food under the element of a stove or only under the top element of an oven - (US) broil.
13. v. colloquial To interrogate; to question aggressively or harshly.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. A gridiron.
2. n. That which is broiled on a gridiron, as meat, fish, etc.
3. n. A figure of crossed bars with interstices, such as those sometimes impressed upon postage stamps.
4. n. A grillroom.
5. v. To broil on a grill or gridiron.
6. v. To torment, as if by broiling.
7. v. To stamp or mark with a grill.
8. v. To undergo the process of being grilled, or broiled; to broil.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a framework of metal bars used as a partition or a grate
2. v. cook over a grill
3. v. examine thoroughly
4. n. a restaurant where food is cooked on a grill