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spit roaster

spit roaster is the alternative form 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

Forms of spit roaster

pluralspit roasters

Questions about spit roaster

What is spit roaster the alternative form of?
Spit roaster is the alternative form of spit-roaster.

Words near spit roaster in the dictionary

  1. spit of land
  2. spit on
  3. spit out
  4. spit roast
  5. spit roasted
  6. spit roaster
  7. spit roasters
  8. spit roasting
  9. spit roasts
  10. spit shine
  11. spit shines

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Adapted from Wiktionary: spit roaster (page history and authors); spit-roaster (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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