griddle

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
griddle/ˈɡrɪdl/

▶noun

• 1 a circular iron plate that is heated and used for cooking food.

• 2 historical a miner's wire-bottomed sieve.

▶verb

• 1 cook on a griddle.

• 2 historical screen (ore) with a griddle.

– origin ME (denoting a gridiron): from OFr. gredil, from L. craticula, dimin. of cratis ‘hurdle’; rel. to crate, grate2, and grill1.