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▪ I. broiler1|ˈbrɔɪlə(r)|
[f. broil v.1 + -er1.]
1. a. One who or that which broils; spec. one who cooks by broiling; also said of a very hot day (cf. roaster, scorcher).
1671J. Webster Metallogr. ii. 31 He was a great Broyler in Gebers Kitchin. 1750R. Pultock Life P. Wilkins xxxiv. (1883) 94/2 When the broilers began to throw the fish about. 1817–8Cobbett Resid. U.S. (1822) 12, July 27. Fine broiler again..We spent a pleasant day; drank..of milk and water. Not more flies than in England.
b. A gridiron or similar utensil used in broiling. Now U.S.
1393in M.E.D. 1632Sherwood, A broiler, gril. 1828–Webster. 1907‘O. Henry’ Trimmed Lamp 64 Two minutes longer on the broiler would have made this steak fit to be eaten by a gentleman. 1907Yesterday's Shopping (1969) 182/2 Capt. Warren's Batchelor's Broiler, 10½ in. 2/9. 1967Boston Sunday Herald 26 Mar. (Advt.), Easy dinners with non-drip cook top, smokeless broiler, and built-in aluminum griddle.
2. spec. A chicken for broiling. Now normally reared in close confinement in a broiler house. Also transf. and attrib.
1876Rep. Vermont Board Agric. III. 244 The cockerels should be sold for broilers when large enough. 1886Pall Mall G. 27 Aug. 14/1 Of these [chicks] about seventy-five per cent. live and grow to be broilers. 1952Daily Tel. 4 Dec., A broiler..is a young bird, weighing about 3 lb dead weight, which has been raised on a new system. It is plump and tender enough to grill or to fry in the traditional American manner. Ibid., Broiler production has been flourishing in America for the past six years. 1959Ibid. 5 Mar. 11/3 The continued spread of broiler houses, the buildings for rearing chickens. 1960Farmer & Stockbreeder 16 Feb. 91/3 Five batches of broilers would go through the broiler-house in the life of one steer. 1966New Statesman 25 Feb. 260/1 A state of affairs which seems to be treating these old people [in hospitals] as if they were broiler fowls. 1970Times 14 Feb. 9/6 The individual birds live a natural life in wild conditions, very unlike those of a broiler house.
▪ II. broiler2|ˈbrɔɪlə(r)|
[f. broil v.2 + -er1.]
One who stirs up or engages in broils or quarrels.
a1660Hammond Wks. IV. 544 (R.) What doth he but turn broiler and boutefeu. 1841J. W. Orderson Creol. viii. 91 Due impression alike on the civil and the military broiler. |