Other forms: grilled, grills, grilling
To grill is to cook food on metal bars directly over or under heat. Grill the fish, grilled cheese, grill it for four minutes.
British and American usage differ sharply here. In Britain a grill is the heat source above the food in an oven; in America that is a broiler, and a grill is the outdoor barbecue. So grilled means quite different arrangements on each side of the Atlantic. Informally, to grill somebody is to question them hard: grilled for two hours. Note gridiron and griddle, which are relatives and are neither of them a grill.
1verbgrillTo cook food on bars directly over or under heat.
“Grill the sausages until they're brown all over.”
Patterngrill + noun (fish, sausages, cheese) · grilled + noun · under the grill · a grill pan · barbecue grill
synonyms: barbecue, broil
2verbquestionTo question somebody hard.
“He was grilled for about two hours and gave nothing away.”
grill is a way of cooking or questioning.
Also accepted in games: barbecue
GRILL → meat behind hot black bars
The sausages lie behind hot black bars like prisoners, and every few minutes somebody turns them over.
Old French greil comes from Latin craticula, a small gridiron — the same root as grate and grid. The word names the bars rather than the heat, which is why both British and American arrangements can claim it.
Latin
crātīcula — gridiron
Old French
greïl
Middle French
gril
French
gril
English, today
grill
Built from
1655, from French gril, from Middle French gril, from Old French greïl, graïl (“gridiron”), from graïlle (“grate, grating”), from Latin crātīcula (“gridiron”), diminutive of crātis (“hurdle, wickerwork”), q.v. Related to griddle, hurdle.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA