Word Meanings - GRIDDLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

W. greidell, Ir. greideal, greideil, griddle, gridiron, greadaim I 1. An iron plate or pan used for cooking cakes. 2. A sieve with a wire bottom, used by miners.

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• COOKSHOP
  An eating house. "A subterranean cookshop." Macaulay.
• PLATEFUL
  Enough to fill a plate; as much as a plate will hold.
• BOTTOMRY
  A contract in the nature of a mortgage, by which the owner of a ship, or the master as his agent, hypothecates and binds the ship as security for the repayment of money advanced or lent for the use of the ship, if she terminates her voyage
• GRIDDLE
  W. greidell, Ir. greideal, greideil, griddle, gridiron, greadaim I 1. An iron plate or pan used for cooking cakes. 2. A sieve with a wire bottom, used by miners.
• PLATEN
  The part of a printing press which presses the paper against the type and by which the impression is made. Hence, an analogous part of a typewriter, on which the paper rests to receive an impression. The movable table of a machine tool,
• PLATE-GILLED
  Having flat, or leaflike, gills, as the bivalve mollusks.
• COOKROOM
  A room for cookery; a kitchen; the galley or caboose of a ship. Sir W. Raleigh.
• PLATE
  A piece of money, usually silver money. "Realms and islands were as plates dropp'd from his pocket." Shak. 7. A piece of metal on which anything is engraved for the purpose of being printed; hence, an impression from the engraved metal; as, a
• PLATERESQUE
  Resembling silver plate; -- said of certain architectural ornaments.
• COOKEE
  A female cook.
• BOTTOM
  The part of a ship which is ordinarily under water; hence, the vessel itself; a ship. My ventures are not in one bottom trusted. Shak. Not to sell the teas, but to return them to London in the same bottoms in which they were shipped. Bancroft. Full
• COOKBOOK
  A book of directions and receipts for cooking; a cookery book. "Just How": a key to the cookbooks. Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney.
• COOKY
  A small, flat, sweetened cake of various kinds. (more info) to G. kuchen, E. cake; or cf. OE. coket, prob., a sort of cake, and
• PLATER
  One who plates or coats articles with gold or silver; as, a silver plater. 2. A machine for calendering paper.
• COOKMAID
  A female servant or maid who dresses provisions and assists the cook.
• GRIDIRON
  An openwork frame on which vessels are placed for examination, cleaning, and repairs. 3. (more info) 1. A grated iron utensil for broiling flesh and fish over coals.
• COOK
  To make the noise of the cuckoo. Constant cuckoos cook on every side. The Silkworms .
• COOKEY; COOKIE
  See COOKY
• PLATEL
  A small dish.
• BOTTOM FERMENTATION
  A slow alcoholic fermentation during which the yeast cells collect at the bottom of the fermenting liquid. It takes place at a temperature of 4º - 10º C. . It is used in making lager beer and wines of low alcohol content but fine bouquet.
• SULPHUR-BOTTOM
  A very large whalebone whale of the genus Sibbaldius, having a yellowish belly; especially, S. sulfureus of the North Pacific, and S. borealis of the North Atlantic; -- called also sulphur whale.
• WET PLATE
  A plate the film of which retains its sensitiveness only while wet. The film used in such plates is of collodion impregnated with bromides and iodides. Before exposure the plate is immersed in a solution of silver nitrate, and immediately after
• CONTEMPLATE
  contemplate; con- + templum a space for observation marked out by the 1. To look at on all sides or in all its bearings; to view or consider with continued attention; to regard with deliberate care; to meditate on; to study. To love,
• VEILED PLATE
  A fogged plate.
• UNBOTTOMED
  Deprived of a bottom. 2. Etym: (more info) 1. Etym:
• FOOTPLATE
  See
• TERNEPLATE
  Thin iron sheets coated with an alloy of lead and tin; -- so called because made up of three metals.
• BREASTPLATE
  A part of the vestment of the high priest, worn upon the front of the ephod. It was a double piece of richly embroidered stuff, a span square, set with twelve precious stones, on which were engraved the names of the twelve tribes of Israel. See
• BACKPIECE; BACKPLATE
  A piece, or plate which forms the back of anything, or which covers the back; armor for the back.
• IMPLATE
  To cover with plates; to sheathe; as, to implate a ship with iron.