meatscreen
meatscreen noun: a heat-reflecting screen that is used to roast or cook meat.
Noun
meatscreen (plural meatscreens)
- A heat-reflecting screen that is used to roast or cook meat.
- A foreigner, be he a Frenchman, American, or Dutchman, if introduced to the 'kitchen,' would stare with astonishment if you told him that in this plain apartment, with its immense fire, meatscreen, gridirons, and a small tub under the window for washing the glasses, the statesmen of England very...1899, John Timbs, Club Life of London, Outlook Verlag, page 147
- I, myself, saw one zealous individual thus encumbered-with a stew- pan on his head, the meatscreen under one arm, the dripping-pan under the other, the frying-pan in his right hand, the gridiron in his left, and the rolling-pin in his mouth.1830, Thomas Hood, The Comic Annual, Hurst, Chance, and Company, page 10
Forms of meatscreen
| plural | meatscreens |
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Origin of meatscreen
meat + screen
Questions about meatscreen
- What does meatscreen mean?
- Meatscreen means a heat-reflecting screen that is used to roast or cook meat.
- What part of speech is meatscreen?
- Meatscreen is a noun.
- What is the plural of meatscreen?
- The plural of meatscreen is meatscreens.
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