spitroaster
spitroaster is the alternative form of spit-roaster.
Meaning of spit-roaster
Noun
spit-roaster (plural spit-roasters)
- 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
- 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 spitroaster
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Questions about spitroaster
- What is spitroaster the alternative form of?
- Spitroaster is the alternative form of spit-roaster.
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