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spit-roasters

spit-roasters is the plural of spit-roaster.

Meaning of spit-roaster

Noun

spit-roaster (plural spit-roasters)

  1. An appliance for spit-roasting.
    • Most modern spit-roasters have attachments for kebab skewers, and this is the best way of cooking these delicious foods.1972, Bee Nilson, “Spit-Roasting”, in Fondue, Flambé and Side Table Cooking, New York, N.Y.: Hippocrene Books, Inc, →ISBN, page 144
  2. One who spit-roasts.
    • The nobles’ servants were allowed to choose their birds first, then the bourgeois, and at 10 or 11 o’clock, according to the season, a bell was rung and the spit-roasters could buy their supplies.1966, Ninette Lyon, translated by Peggie Benton, “Generalities”, in Chicken and Game, London: Faber and Faber for The Cookery Book Club, page 18

Questions about spit-roasters

What is spit-roasters the plural of?
Spit-roasters is the plural of spit-roaster.

Words near spit-roasters in the dictionary

  1. spit-poison
  2. spit-poisons
  3. spit-roast
  4. spit-roasted
  5. spit-roaster
  6. spit-roasters
  7. spit-roasting
  8. spit-roastings
  9. spit-roasts
  10. spit-spot
  11. spit-take

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