English Dictionary

gridiron

/ˈɡɹɪdaɪən/

noun

An instrument of torture on which people were secured before being burned by fire. / An iron rack or grate used for broiling meat and fish over coals.

The players lined up on the gridiron.

意味（1）

An instrument of torture on which people were secured before being burned by fire.

I know, there have been found seely boores, who have rather endure to have their feet broiled upon a Greedyron, their fingers ends crusht and wrung with the lock of a Pistoll, their eyes all bloody to be thrust out of their heads with wringing and wresting of a cord about their foreheads, before they would so much as be ransomed.

意味（2）

An iron rack or grate used for broiling meat and fish over coals.