scrowling

Verb

scrowl (third-person singular simple present scrowls, present participle scrowling, simple past and past participle scrowled)

1. (Cornwall, transitive) To cook (pilchards) on a gridiron.
   • The approved method of cooking them [pilchards], according to Mr. Howard Fox, "is to split and pepper, place one fish flat on another, backs outside, and roast on a gridiron." This is the process provincially termed "scrowling."1884, H. J. Green, The Herring Fisheries, page 391