grill

Multiple Entries:
  grill    grille  

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
grill1

▶noun Brit.

• 1 a device on a cooker that radiates heat downwards for cooking food.

• 2 a gridiron used for cooking food on an open fire.

• 3 a dish of grilled food, especially meat.

  ■ a restaurant serving grilled food.

▶verb

• 1 cook with a grill.

• 2 informal subject to intense questioning or interrogation.

– derivatives
griller noun.

– origin C17: from Fr. gril (n.), griller (v.), from OFr. graille ‘grille’.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
grill2

▶noun variant spelling of grille.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
grille /ɡrɪl/ (also grill)

▶noun a grating or screen of metal bars or wires.

– origin C17: from Fr., from med. L., craticula, dimin. of cratis ‘hurdle’; rel. to crate, grate2, and griddle.