roast

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  1. transitive verb To cook with dry heat, as in an oven or near hot coals.
  2. transitive verb To dry, brown, or parch by exposing to heat.
  3. transitive verb To expose to great or excessive heat.
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  • Let me give you your meal, or the roast will be overdone. —  Maigret's Revolver - Georges Simenon - 68
  • With the roast is always put on the SWEETS, as they are called, as the term dessert seems restricted to the last course of fruits. —  Letters from England 1846-1849
  • Because the roast is so lean, cooking it beyond this point will just make it tough. —  thecookscottage
  • He not only admitted the truth of all that his tempter advanced, but entertained the seamen with a lively and graphic account of the running down of the Skylark, and entered into minute particulars--chiefly of a comical nature--with such recklessness that the cause of Mr Jones bade fair to resemble many a roast which is totally ruined by being overdone. —  The Floating Light of the Goodwin Sands
  • However it is managed, and it must be managed_, the nearer the operation can appear to be a "magic transformation," the better To return; the roast is the next course. —  Etiquette
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steak ·  stew ·  pork ·  chop ·  fry ·  cutlet ·  venison ·  salad ·  turkey ·  gravy ·  veal ·  pie

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roast:   roasts ·  roasted
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Etymologies (4)

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  1. Middle English rosten, from Old French rostir, of Germanic origin.

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  1. Early modern English also rost; from Middle English rosten, roosten, partly (a) from Anglo-Saxon *rōstian, gerōstian, also gerōscian (only in glosses), roast, = Middle Dutch, Dutch roosten = Middle Low German rōsten, Low German rosten = Old High German rōstan, Middle High German rœsten, later roschten, German rösten, roast; orig. cook on a grate or gridiron, from Anglo-Saxon *rōst (not found) = Middle Low German rōste, Low German roste = Old High German rōst, rōsta, gridiron, Middle High German rōste, a grate, also heap of coals, glow, fire, German rost, a grate, gridiron; and partly (b) from Old French rostir, French rôtir, dial. roûtir = Provencal raustir = Catalan Old Spanish rostir = Italian arrostire, roast, from Old High German rōstan, roast (as above). Perhaps orig. Celtic: cf. Irish roistin, a gridiron, rosdaim, I roast, rost, roast meat, Gaelic rost, roist, Welsh rhostio, Breton rosta, roast; but these words may be from English and F.
  2. Early modern English also rost; from Middle English rost, irost, contr. past participle of rosten, roast: see roast, v.
  3. Early modern English also rost; from Middle English rost, roost = Middle Dutch roost (Old French rost), a roast; from the verb.
 

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