grill

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• transitive verb To broil on a gridiron.
• transitive verb To torture or afflict as if by broiling.
• transitive verb Informal To question relentlessly; cross-examine.
• transitive verb To mark or emboss with a gridiron.
• noun A cooking surface of parallel metal bars; a gridiron.
• noun Food cooked by broiling or grilling.
• noun An informal restaurant or a room in a restaurant where grilled foods are served.
• noun A series of marks grilled or embossed on a surface.

from The Century Dictionary.

• Harsh; rough; severe; cruel.
• To make angry; provoke.
• To terrify; cause to tremble.
• To tremble; shiver.
• To snarl; snap.
• noun Harm.
• To broil on or as on a grill or gridiron.
• To undergo broiling; be in a broil.
• 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.
• noun A grated utensil for broiling meat, etc., over a fire; a gridiron.
• noun Faint and short white lines or cross-bars on some flat surfaces of engraving.
• noun In electricity, the grid of a storage cell.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun A gridiron.
• noun That which is broiled on a gridiron, as meat, fish, etc.
• noun A figure of crossed bars with interstices, such as those sometimes impressed upon postage stamps.
• noun A grillroom.
• intransitive verb To undergo the process of being grilled, or broiled; to broil.
• transitive verb To broil on a grill or gridiron.
• transitive verb To torment, as if by broiling.
• transitive verb To stamp or mark with a grill.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• adjective harsh, rough, severe; cruel
• noun harm
• verb transitive, Scotland, US To make angry; provoke.
• verb transitive To terrify; make tremble.
• verb intransitive To tremble; shiver.
• verb intransitive, Northern England, Scotland To snarl; snap.
• noun 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.
• noun On a vehicle, a slotted cover as above, to protect and hide the radiator, while admitting air to cool it.
• noun A device comprising a source of radiant heat and a means of holding food near it, to cook it; a barbecue; a griddle.
• noun colloquial A type of jewelry worn on the front teeth; by extension, the front teeth regarded collectively.
• verb To cook food on a grill; to barbecue.
• verb Australia, New Zealand, UK To cook food under the element of a stove or only under the top element of an oven - (US) broil.
• verb colloquial To interrogate; to question aggressively or harshly.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun a framework of metal bars used as a partition or a grate
• verb cook over a grill
• verb examine thoroughly
• noun a restaurant where food is cooked on a grill