gridiron
a football field.
a utensil consisting of parallel metal bars on which to broil meat or other food.
any framework or network resembling a gridiron.
a structure above the stage of a theater, from which hung scenery and the like are manipulated.
to mark off into squares or design with a network of squares.
Origin of gridiron
1Words Nearby gridiron
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How to use gridiron in a sentence
Saint Lawrence, burned over an iron grill, stands with a gridiron.
Jan. 6 Has Given The Right Hundreds Of New Martyrs | Kaleigh Rogers | September 22, 2021 | FiveThirtyEightDefensive chairs have a protruding bumper specifically designed to “hook” and hold an attacker, just as you might tackle or block in conventional rugby or on a gridiron.
Para-Athletes Use Some of the Most Innovative Gear We’ve Seen | agintzler | September 10, 2021 | Outside OnlineEven the fact that he is taking over a downtrodden program only gives Kelley another chance to upend traditional notions of how things normally proceed on the gridiron.
A high school coach who never punts and loves onside kicks grabs reins of FCS program | Des Bieler | May 7, 2021 | Washington PostShortly after capping its best season in program history on the gridiron, Alabama is in the midst of its best season in program history on the hardwood.
Alabama Is Looking Like An SEC Powerhouse … In Basketball | Josh Planos | February 22, 2021 | FiveThirtyEightThat may be how the Tide’s season ends, but for now, Oats and his players have dreams of a national championship, just like their gridiron brethren.
Alabama Is Looking Like An SEC Powerhouse … In Basketball | Josh Planos | February 22, 2021 | FiveThirtyEight
This opponent is like no other Rodgers has to face on the gridiron.
Aaron Rodgers Takes Aim at Congo’s ‘Blood Minerals’ War | John Prendergast | December 3, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBack then, every single newspaper, website, and news show (even the fake news shows) was awash in gridiron scandal.
The senator, a college gridiron star, has a coldly Machiavellian widow.
Better Than Fiction: The Rise, Fall, And Return of Webb Hubbell | Lloyd Grove | May 1, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTDoing well at the gridiron is a rite of passage that not everybody survives.
How an economist views the game and the evidence from XLVII years on the gridiron.
Want a Super Bowl Boost for the Economy? Root for Seattle. | Mark Lieberman | February 2, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTSo saying he proceeded to place the red herrings on a gridiron, as if he were the recognised cook of the establishment.
Hunted and Harried | R.M. BallantyneThe bourgeois of Nantes turned around sharply and saw the heaped-up combustibles under the gridiron beginning to take fire.
The Pilgrim's Shell or Fergan the Quarryman | Eugne SueThe corpse of Bezenecq the Rich was chained to the gridiron above the dying embers of the coal fire.
The Pilgrim's Shell or Fergan the Quarryman | Eugne SueApproaching Isoline, he struck against the gridiron, where lay the corpse of the bourgeois of Nantes.
The Pilgrim's Shell or Fergan the Quarryman | Eugne SueThe unhappy Coquerico stripped of all his feathers, the soldier took him and laid him on the gridiron.
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British Dictionary definitions for gridiron
/ (ˈɡrɪdˌaɪən) /
a utensil of parallel metal bars, used to grill meat, fish, etc
any framework resembling this utensil
a framework above the stage in a theatre from which suspended scenery, lights, etc, are manipulated
the field of play in American football
an informal name for American football
(as modifier): a gridiron hero
Origin of gridiron
1- Often shortened to: grid
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