gridiron
n. 烤架, 格状物
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An instrument of torture on which people were secured before being burned by fire.
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An iron rack or grate used for broiling meat and fish over coals.
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Any object resembling the rack or grate.
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An openwork frame on which vessels are placed for examination, cleaning, and repairs.
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A raised framework from which lighting is suspended.
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The field on which American football is played.
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American and Canadian football, particularly when used to distinguish from other codes of football.
澳大利亚 新西兰 不可数 可数1995 October 3, Peter O′Shea, Sports: Out on the field, The Advocate, page 54, He represented Australia in this year′s rugby tour of England and is as well-known in Australia as any top gridiron player is in the United States.
2009, Deborah Healey, Sport and the Law, reference note, UNSW Press, page 271, 119 Yasser (1985) cites the famous US example of gridiron player Dick Butkus of the Chicago Bears.
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To mark or cover with lines; to crisscross.
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To purchase land so that the remaining adjacent sections are smaller than the minimum area purchasable as freehold, thus excluding potential freeholders.
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词源
From Middle English gridirne, gredirne, gredyron, gredeyron, grydern, grydyryne, girdirin, girderen, variants of Middle English gredire, gredyre, itself an alteration of Middle English gridel (“griddle”). The ending was assimilated to iron, as if from grid + iron, whence grid was later derived.
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