gridironn.

/ˈɡrɪdʌɪən/

Forms: α. Middle English gred-, Middle English gridire, Middle English gredyre, gerdyre. β. Middle English gredyrne, gridirne, Middle English grederne, gredirne, gredeyren, gredren, gredryn, grydirne, grydeyron, grydeyorn, Middle English–1500s gredyron, 1500s gredyern, grediren, gryderne, grede yron, 1500s–1600s greediron(e, grediron, 1600s gridyron, 1500s– gridiron. γ. 1500s northern girdiron, girdyrne, gerdyron, girde-, gyrd(e-iron.

Etymology: Of obscure formation. The earliest form gredire appears in the same text ( S. Eng. Leg.) with gredile griddle n., but it is not clear whether the change from-ile to -ire is phonetic, or due to popular etymology. The later forms, however, show that the -ire was at an early date identified with southern Middle English ire = iren iron n.¹ (compare fur-ire fire iron n.), the further development being parallel to that of andiron n.

a. A cooking utensil formed of parallel bars of iron or other metal in a frame, usually supported on short legs, and used for broiling flesh or fish over a fire. †Also formerly: a girdle or griddle.

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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > cooking vessel or pot > [noun] > gridiron

roasting-ironc1350

roast-iron1354

brandiron1381

gridiron1382

broiler1393

griddlea1425

branderc1450

grate-iron1577

chaplet1664

grill1685

grid1875

parrilla1964

parrillada1975

robata1975

charbroiler1982

α.

14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 626/7 Gredyre, craticula.

β. 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Exod. xxvii. 4 Thow shalt make..a brasun gredyrne [a1425 L.V. gridele, Coverdale gredyron, 1551 gredyern, 1611 grate or networke] in the manere of a nett.c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness l. 1277 Þe gredirne & þe goblotes garnyst of syluer.c1450 Two Cookery-bks. 102 Kutte the chyne in ij. or in iij. peces, and roste him on a faire gredryn.1485 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 51 Ketle hokes ij., Grydirnes j., fflesh hokes j.?c1485 W. Barker & M. Worcester in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) II. 607 A gredeyren of syluer of Parysse towche, not gylt.?1543 T. Phaer tr. J. Goeurot Regiment of Lyfe iii. f. xxii Fysh rosted vpon the grydyron.1561 J. Hollybush tr. H. Brunschwig Most Excellent Homish Apothecarye f. 6 Take the braynes of a hogge, rost the same vpon a grede yron.1647 R. Stapleton tr. Juvenal Sixteen Satyrs 211 Broil'd rashers, that on wide gridirons lay.1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones IV. x. iv. 30 The said Chicken was then at Roost.., and required the several Ceremonies of catching, killing, and picking, before it was brought to the Grid-iron . c1850 Arabian Nights (Rtldg.) 621 Our gridiron is only fit to broil small fish.γ. 1495 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 260 Brasyn pottes brokyn..Gyrdeyrons Brokyn.1528 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1884) V. 255 A girdyrne, xij d.1557 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories Archdeaconry Richmond (1853) 100 One old brandrethe, one gerdyron, one pare of tongs.1599 Acc. Bk. in Antiquary XXXII. 243 A girde Iron.

b. A similar structure employed as an instrument of torture by fire.As in the case of griddle n., this is the connection in which the word first appears in English.

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society > authority > punishment > torture > instrument or place of torture > [noun] > gridiron

griddle?c1225

gridironc1290

parrilla1857

α.

c1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 344/154 Strong fuyr he lieth maken and gret, and a gredire þar-on sette.

c1305 St. Cristopher 202 in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 65 Þe king het þat me scholde anon vpe a gridire him do And roste him wiþ fur & pich.

1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. iii. 130 Laurens þe leuite lyggynge on þe gredire, Loked vp to oure lorde.

14.. S.E. Legendary (Bodl. 779) in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen 82 325 Vppon a gerdyre he let here to rosty.

β. 1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 248/1 The mynystres..leyd hym stratched oute uppon a gredyron of yron.1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde i. viii. f. 39^v A certeyne frame of woodde much lyke vnto a hurdle or grediren.1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage ix. xv. 913 The Nobles and commanders, they broiled on gridirons.1631 R. Byfield Doctr. Sabbath Vindicated 51 The wheele, greediron, racke and faggot.1649 Bp. J. Taylor Great Exemplar iii. xv. 92 S. Laurence accounted the coals of his Gridiron but as a Julip.1855 W. Irving Chron. Wolfert's Roost 9 The gridiron of the blessed St. Lawrence.1869 W. E. H. Lecky Hist. European Morals II. xi. 235 The devil was represented bound by red-hot chains on a burning gridiron.

2. figurative and in phrases. †the gridiron grumbles at the frying pan: cf. ‘the pot calls the kettle black.’ on the gridiron: in a state of torment, persecution, or great uneasiness (cf. French être sur le gril); so to lay (a person) on the gridiron.

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the world > action or operation > adversity > in adversity [phrase]

on the gridiron1590

under a cloudc1605

down the weather1611

up the (also a) pole1897

on the mat1917

the mind > emotion > suffering > mental anguish or torment > in a state of anguish or torment [phrase]

on the gridiron1590

on the rack1600

the mind > emotion > suffering > state of being upset or perturbed > worry > anxiety > [phrase] > acutely anxious

on the gridiron1590

on the rack1600

on pins and needles1710

1590 R. Greene Neuer too Late ii. sig. K^v I was so scorched on the grediron of affection, that I had no rest.

1660 Bp. J. Taylor Ductor Dubitantium I. i. i. 19 He runs to weakness for excuse, and to sin for a comfort..and changes from side to side upon his grid-iron till the flesh drop from the bones on every side.

1672 R. Wild Poetica Licentia in Let. Declar. Liberty Conscience 27 The Calf at Bethel fears the Calf at Dan; The Gridiron grumbles at the Frying-pan.

a1734 R. North Examen (1740) iii. vii. §30 525 It was past Three before the Chief Justice heard that his Name was upon the Gridiron at Westminster.

1834 T. B. Macaulay Let. 1 July in G. O. Trevelyan Life & Lett. Macaulay (1876) I. vi. 369 While London is a perfect gridiron, here am I, at 13° North from the equator, by a blazing wood-fire, with my windows closed.

1859 W. Collins Queen of Hearts I. 33 When destiny has..heated his gridiron for him, he has nothing left to do..but to get up and sit on it.

1871 E. C. G. Murray Member for Paris II. 9 He proceeded to do what is called in journalistic phrase ‘laying a man on the gridiron’, which means that he..served him up every day to the readers of the Pavois, skewered through and through with an epigram.

a. Applied to objects resembling or likened to a gridiron; †a grated weir or dam (obsolete); a grating or grille; a network of pipes, lines, etc.; the United States flag, the stars and stripes.

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society > communication > indication > insignia > standard > [noun] > flag > U.S. flag

Old Thirteen1792

Stars and Stripes1809

gridiron1812

star-spangled banner1814

Old Glory1862

the world > space > relative position > fact or condition of being transverse > intersection > [noun] > grating or lattice

latticea1382

trellisa1400

grate1412

trail1485

tresance1510

cradle1561

craticle1657

grillade1727

grating1739

treillage1836

grid1839

gridiron1854

the world > space > relative position > fact or condition of being transverse > intersection > [noun] > grating or lattice > something resembling a lattice

portcullisa1460

lattice1657

gridiron1854

1406–7 Winchester College Acc. Roll In stip. j carpentarii facientis j gredyre ad introitum aquæ de Lurteborne.

1812 Niles' Reg. 12 Sept. 31/2 The masts from which they flew, went over the side, while Hull's four ‘gridirons’ floated in the air triumphant.

1850 W. R. Grove On Correlation Physical Forces (ed. 2) 58 Between this glass and the plate is a gridiron of silver wire.

1854 E. Ronalds & T. Richardson Knapp's Chem. Technol. (ed. 2) I. 378 To this pipe are attached a number of arms formed of inch pipe, the whole forming a sort of gridiron.

1863 M. E. Braddon Eleanor's Victory I. i. 9 He..wore a silver gridiron in his button-hole.

1866 E. A. Pollard Southern Hist. War II. 103 ‘It was,’ says a Charleston paper, ‘the identical “gridiron” carried from Fort Sumter in 1861.’

1869 R. D. Blackmore Lorna Doone I. ii. 13 He answered, in a whisper, through the gridiron of the gate.

1871 M. Schele de Vere Americanisms (1872) 258 Sailors laugh at it good-naturedly, and seeing it [sc. the Stars and Stripes] hoisted, say: ‘There goes the gridiron.’

1892 Harper's Mag. Feb. 435/1 Chicago is criss-crossed by a gridiron of railway tracks.

1893 J. A. Barry Steve Brown's Bunyip 29 Run the gridiron half-mast, Mr. Stokes.

1893 J. S. Farmer Slang Gridiron,..the bars on a cell window.

b. Nautical. A heavy framework of beams in parallel open order (suggesting a gridiron) used to support a ship in dock. (So French gril.)

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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > shipbuilding and repairing > [noun] > slip on which ships built or repaired > framework on which vessel rests

stocks1422

trestle1612

cradle1627

boat cradle1829

gridiron1846

skid1856

grid1867

crib1883

1846 A. Young Naut. Dict. Gridiron, a frame formed of cross beams of wood, for laying a vessel upon in order to inspect or repair her at low water.

1863 Q. Rev. 114 309 They raise a gridiron which is suspended between them at such a depth in the water as may be requisite to receive the vessel.

1896 Daily News 21 Dec. 2/1 A first-class gridiron, capable of taking vessels up to 300 feet long.

c. Theatre. A structure of planks erected above the stage and supporting the mechanism for the manipulation of drop-scenes, etc. (So French gril.)

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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > stage > [noun] > parts above stage

shadow1600

fly1805

rigging loft1851

gridiron-floor1881

gridiron1886

fly-gallery1888

grid1927

1886 H. S. Jennings Stage Gossip 69 The ‘gridiron’ is the name for a number of planks running at a great height above the stage from R. to L.

1887 Standard 13 Sept. 6/4 Did the magistrates inspect what is known as the ‘gridiron’—the place immediately over the stage?

d. Architecture. = grid n. 6d. Usually attributive.

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > [noun] > town-planning or development > lay-out

gridiron1883

layout1888

grid1954

1883 R. Gower My Reminisc. II. xxvii. 204 The formal and gridiron-like plan of the streets of this city.

1910 Catal. Cities Exhib. in P. Geddes Cities in Evolution (1949) 167 The cities of the United States, with their monotonous gridiron-plans.

1938 Oxoniensia 3 85 Anything approaching a spider's web at the nucleus of an English town appears to be extremely rare, and apart from a few towns where the Roman street-plan influenced later development a proper gridiron system is uncommon in England.

1961 L. Mumford City in Hist. xiv. 424 In the gridiron plan, as applied in the commercial city, no section or precinct was suitably planned for its specific function.

1961 L. Mumford City in Hist. xiv. 425 The extension of the speculative gridiron and the public transportation system were the two main activities that gave dominance to capitalist forms in the growing cities of the nineteenth century.

1969 Geography LIV. 200 The grid-iron town plan of Ashburton.

e. = grid n. 10. Also attributive.

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > football > American football > [noun]

American football1879

football1881

gridiron1896

grid1928

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > football > American football > [noun] > scoring > field of play

gridiron1896

grid1928

1896 Daily News 10 Dec. 3/4 The ground here is marked out by white lines..thus giving it the appearance of a gigantic gridiron—which, indeed, is the technical name applied to an American football field.

1900 Dial. Notes 2 39 Gridiron, foot-ball field.

1937 L. C. Douglas Forgive us our Trespasses vii. 126 He was gleefully welcomed by young Assistant Coach Roberts and the awkward assembly of prospective gridiron heroes.

1960 T. McLean Kings of Rugby 61 American, or gridiron, football.

1968 C. Drummond Death & Leaping Ladies i. 11 You can't just walk into a team like you can, say, in gridiron or soccer.

4. Short for gridiron pendulum n. at Compounds.

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the world > time > instruments for measuring time > clock > [noun] > pendulum clock > pendulum

pendule1660

pendulum1660

simple pendulum1673

bob-pendulum1685

swing1696

quicksilver pendulum1726

pendle1741

gridiron pendulum1751

mercurial pendulum1786

gridiron1793

wanrest1794

seconds pendulum1795

conical pendulum1813

ticker1821

noddy1844

1793 Sir G. Shuckburgh in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 83 88 The pendulum..is a compound gridiron composed of five rods.

5. Short for gridiron manœuvre, etc.: a naval manoeuvre in which the paths taken by the vessels suggest the form of a gridiron.

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society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > operations or manoeuvres > [noun] > formation of ships

gridiron1893

1893 Daily News 26 June 6/1 In executing the ‘gridiron’ movement the vessels would at times be very close to each other.

1894 Times 30 July 8/1 The Admiral felt justified in twice putting it [the fleet] through the much-discussed evolution known as the ‘gridiron’.

Compounds

gridiron carrier n. an open iron framework fixed on a bicycle to carry parcels (cf. grid n. 9).

ΚΠ

1897 Earl of Suffolk et al. Encycl. Sport I. 270/1 Large parcels should be carried on a ‘gridiron’ carrier..clamped to the head socket.

gridiron-floor n. = sense 3c.

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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > stage > [noun] > parts above stage

shadow1600

fly1805

rigging loft1851

gridiron-floor1881

gridiron1886

fly-gallery1888

grid1927

1881 L. Wagner Pantomimes 57 From the flies a ladder communicates with the gridiron-floor, at the very roof of the stage, frequently at a height of sixty or seventy feet above the footlights.

gridiron pendulum n. a compensation pendulum composed of parallel rods of different metals.

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the world > time > instruments for measuring time > clock > [noun] > pendulum clock > pendulum

pendule1660

pendulum1660

simple pendulum1673

bob-pendulum1685

swing1696

quicksilver pendulum1726

pendle1741

gridiron pendulum1751

mercurial pendulum1786

gridiron1793

wanrest1794

seconds pendulum1795

conical pendulum1813

ticker1821

noddy1844

1751 Prof. Bliss Let. Jan. in Philos. Trans. 1751–2 (Royal Soc.) (1753) 47 493 Your pendulum takes off the effect of heat and cold as well as either the gridiron-pendulum (as it is commonly called) or the quicksilver pendulum.

1854 J. Scoffern in Orr's Circle Sci., Chem. 115 Another means of avoiding this source of error is the gridiron pendulum..—an invention of Harrison.

1877 G. F. Chambers Handbk. Descr. Astron. (ed. 3) viii. 771 Gridiron compensation pendulum.

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gridiron track n. a set of short tracks arranged like a gridiron, used for sorting and shifting railway-carriages (cf. quot. 1892 at sense 3a).

gridiron valve n. a sliding valve in which the cover and seat are both composed of parallel bars with spaces between them.

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1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Gridiron valve.

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单词	gridiron
释义	gridironn. /ˈɡrɪdʌɪən/ Forms: α. Middle English gred-, Middle English gridire, Middle English gredyre, gerdyre. β. Middle English gredyrne, gridirne, Middle English grederne, gredirne, gredeyren, gredren, gredryn, grydirne, grydeyron, grydeyorn, Middle English–1500s gredyron, 1500s gredyern, grediren, gryderne, grede yron, 1500s–1600s greediron(e, grediron, 1600s gridyron, 1500s– gridiron. γ. 1500s northern girdiron, girdyrne, gerdyron, girde-, gyrd(e-iron. Etymology: Of obscure formation. The earliest form gredire appears in the same text ( S. Eng. Leg.) with gredile griddle n., but it is not clear whether the change from-ile to -ire is phonetic, or due to popular etymology. The later forms, however, show that the -ire was at an early date identified with southern Middle English ire = iren iron n.¹ (compare fur-ire fire iron n.), the further development being parallel to that of andiron n. 1. a. A cooking utensil formed of parallel bars of iron or other metal in a frame, usually supported on short legs, and used for broiling flesh or fish over a fire. †Also formerly: a girdle or griddle. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > cooking vessel or pot > [noun] > gridiron roasting-ironc1350 roast-iron1354 brandiron1381 gridiron1382 broiler1393 griddlea1425 branderc1450 grate-iron1577 chaplet1664 grill1685 grid1875 parrilla1964 parrillada1975 robata1975 charbroiler1982 α. 14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 626/7 Gredyre, craticula. β. 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Exod. xxvii. 4 Thow shalt make..a brasun gredyrne [a1425 L.V. gridele, Coverdale gredyron, 1551 gredyern, 1611 grate or networke] in the manere of a nett.c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness l. 1277 Þe gredirne & þe goblotes garnyst of syluer.c1450 Two Cookery-bks. 102 Kutte the chyne in ij. or in iij. peces, and roste him on a faire gredryn.1485 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 51 Ketle hokes ij., Grydirnes j., fflesh hokes j.?c1485 W. Barker & M. Worcester in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) II. 607 A gredeyren of syluer of Parysse towche, not gylt.?1543 T. Phaer tr. J. Goeurot Regiment of Lyfe iii. f. xxii Fysh rosted vpon the grydyron.1561 J. Hollybush tr. H. Brunschwig Most Excellent Homish Apothecarye f. 6 Take the braynes of a hogge, rost the same vpon a grede yron.1647 R. Stapleton tr. Juvenal Sixteen Satyrs 211 Broil'd rashers, that on wide gridirons lay.1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones IV. x. iv. 30 The said Chicken was then at Roost.., and required the several Ceremonies of catching, killing, and picking, before it was brought to the Grid-iron . View more context for this quotationc1850 Arabian Nights (Rtldg.) 621 Our gridiron is only fit to broil small fish.γ. 1495 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 260 Brasyn pottes brokyn..Gyrdeyrons Brokyn.1528 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1884) V. 255 A girdyrne, xij d.1557 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories Archdeaconry Richmond (1853) 100 One old brandrethe, one gerdyron, one pare of tongs.1599 Acc. Bk. in Antiquary XXXII. 243 A girde Iron. b. A similar structure employed as an instrument of torture by fire.As in the case of griddle n., this is the connection in which the word first appears in English. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > torture > instrument or place of torture > [noun] > gridiron griddle?c1225 gridironc1290 parrilla1857 α. c1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 344/154 Strong fuyr he lieth maken and gret, and a gredire þar-on sette. c1305 St. Cristopher 202 in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 65 Þe king het þat me scholde anon vpe a gridire him do And roste him wiþ fur & pich. 1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. iii. 130 Laurens þe leuite lyggynge on þe gredire, Loked vp to oure lorde. 14.. S.E. Legendary (Bodl. 779) in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen 82 325 Vppon a gerdyre he let here to rosty. β. 1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 248/1 The mynystres..leyd hym stratched oute uppon a gredyron of yron.1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde i. viii. f. 39^v A certeyne frame of woodde much lyke vnto a hurdle or grediren.1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage ix. xv. 913 The Nobles and commanders, they broiled on gridirons.1631 R. Byfield Doctr. Sabbath Vindicated 51 The wheele, greediron, racke and faggot.1649 Bp. J. Taylor Great Exemplar iii. xv. 92 S. Laurence accounted the coals of his Gridiron but as a Julip.1855 W. Irving Chron. Wolfert's Roost 9 The gridiron of the blessed St. Lawrence.1869 W. E. H. Lecky Hist. European Morals II. xi. 235 The devil was represented bound by red-hot chains on a burning gridiron. 2. figurative and in phrases. †the gridiron grumbles at the frying pan: cf. ‘the pot calls the kettle black.’ on the gridiron: in a state of torment, persecution, or great uneasiness (cf. French être sur le gril); so to lay (a person) on the gridiron. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > adversity > in adversity [phrase] on the gridiron1590 under a cloudc1605 down the weather1611 up the (also a) pole1897 on the mat1917 the mind > emotion > suffering > mental anguish or torment > in a state of anguish or torment [phrase] on the gridiron1590 on the rack1600 the mind > emotion > suffering > state of being upset or perturbed > worry > anxiety > [phrase] > acutely anxious on the gridiron1590 on the rack1600 on pins and needles1710 1590 R. Greene Neuer too Late ii. sig. K^v I was so scorched on the grediron of affection, that I had no rest. 1660 Bp. J. Taylor Ductor Dubitantium I. i. i. 19 He runs to weakness for excuse, and to sin for a comfort..and changes from side to side upon his grid-iron till the flesh drop from the bones on every side. 1672 R. Wild Poetica Licentia in Let. Declar. Liberty Conscience 27 The Calf at Bethel fears the Calf at Dan; The Gridiron grumbles at the Frying-pan. a1734 R. North Examen (1740) iii. vii. §30 525 It was past Three before the Chief Justice heard that his Name was upon the Gridiron at Westminster. 1834 T. B. Macaulay Let. 1 July in G. O. Trevelyan Life & Lett. Macaulay (1876) I. vi. 369 While London is a perfect gridiron, here am I, at 13° North from the equator, by a blazing wood-fire, with my windows closed. 1859 W. Collins Queen of Hearts I. 33 When destiny has..heated his gridiron for him, he has nothing left to do..but to get up and sit on it. 1871 E. C. G. Murray Member for Paris II. 9 He proceeded to do what is called in journalistic phrase ‘laying a man on the gridiron’, which means that he..served him up every day to the readers of the Pavois, skewered through and through with an epigram. 3. a. Applied to objects resembling or likened to a gridiron; †a grated weir or dam (obsolete); a grating or grille; a network of pipes, lines, etc.; the United States flag, the stars and stripes. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > insignia > standard > [noun] > flag > U.S. flag Old Thirteen1792 Stars and Stripes1809 gridiron1812 star-spangled banner1814 Old Glory1862 the world > space > relative position > fact or condition of being transverse > intersection > [noun] > grating or lattice latticea1382 trellisa1400 grate1412 trail1485 tresance1510 cradle1561 craticle1657 grillade1727 grating1739 treillage1836 grid1839 gridiron1854 the world > space > relative position > fact or condition of being transverse > intersection > [noun] > grating or lattice > something resembling a lattice portcullisa1460 lattice1657 gridiron1854 1406–7 Winchester College Acc. Roll In stip. j carpentarii facientis j gredyre ad introitum aquæ de Lurteborne. 1812 Niles' Reg. 12 Sept. 31/2 The masts from which they flew, went over the side, while Hull's four ‘gridirons’ floated in the air triumphant. 1850 W. R. Grove On Correlation Physical Forces (ed. 2) 58 Between this glass and the plate is a gridiron of silver wire. 1854 E. Ronalds & T. Richardson Knapp's Chem. Technol. (ed. 2) I. 378 To this pipe are attached a number of arms formed of inch pipe, the whole forming a sort of gridiron. 1863 M. E. Braddon Eleanor's Victory I. i. 9 He..wore a silver gridiron in his button-hole. 1866 E. A. Pollard Southern Hist. War II. 103 ‘It was,’ says a Charleston paper, ‘the identical “gridiron” carried from Fort Sumter in 1861.’ 1869 R. D. Blackmore Lorna Doone I. ii. 13 He answered, in a whisper, through the gridiron of the gate. 1871 M. Schele de Vere Americanisms (1872) 258 Sailors laugh at it good-naturedly, and seeing it [sc. the Stars and Stripes] hoisted, say: ‘There goes the gridiron.’ 1892 Harper's Mag. Feb. 435/1 Chicago is criss-crossed by a gridiron of railway tracks. 1893 J. A. Barry Steve Brown's Bunyip 29 Run the gridiron half-mast, Mr. Stokes. 1893 J. S. Farmer Slang Gridiron,..the bars on a cell window. b. Nautical. A heavy framework of beams in parallel open order (suggesting a gridiron) used to support a ship in dock. (So French gril.) ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > shipbuilding and repairing > [noun] > slip on which ships built or repaired > framework on which vessel rests stocks1422 trestle1612 cradle1627 boat cradle1829 gridiron1846 skid1856 grid1867 crib1883 1846 A. Young Naut. Dict. Gridiron, a frame formed of cross beams of wood, for laying a vessel upon in order to inspect or repair her at low water. 1863 Q. Rev. 114 309 They raise a gridiron which is suspended between them at such a depth in the water as may be requisite to receive the vessel. 1896 Daily News 21 Dec. 2/1 A first-class gridiron, capable of taking vessels up to 300 feet long. c. Theatre. A structure of planks erected above the stage and supporting the mechanism for the manipulation of drop-scenes, etc. (So French gril.) ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > stage > [noun] > parts above stage shadow1600 fly1805 rigging loft1851 gridiron-floor1881 gridiron1886 fly-gallery1888 grid1927 1886 H. S. Jennings Stage Gossip 69 The ‘gridiron’ is the name for a number of planks running at a great height above the stage from R. to L. 1887 Standard 13 Sept. 6/4 Did the magistrates inspect what is known as the ‘gridiron’—the place immediately over the stage? d. Architecture. = grid n. 6d. Usually attributive. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > [noun] > town-planning or development > lay-out gridiron1883 layout1888 grid1954 1883 R. Gower My Reminisc. II. xxvii. 204 The formal and gridiron-like plan of the streets of this city. 1910 Catal. Cities Exhib. in P. Geddes Cities in Evolution (1949) 167 The cities of the United States, with their monotonous gridiron-plans. 1938 Oxoniensia 3 85 Anything approaching a spider's web at the nucleus of an English town appears to be extremely rare, and apart from a few towns where the Roman street-plan influenced later development a proper gridiron system is uncommon in England. 1961 L. Mumford City in Hist. xiv. 424 In the gridiron plan, as applied in the commercial city, no section or precinct was suitably planned for its specific function. 1961 L. Mumford City in Hist. xiv. 425 The extension of the speculative gridiron and the public transportation system were the two main activities that gave dominance to capitalist forms in the growing cities of the nineteenth century. 1969 Geography LIV. 200 The grid-iron town plan of Ashburton. e. = grid n. 10. Also attributive. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > football > American football > [noun] American football1879 football1881 gridiron1896 grid1928 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > football > American football > [noun] > scoring > field of play gridiron1896 grid1928 1896 Daily News 10 Dec. 3/4 The ground here is marked out by white lines..thus giving it the appearance of a gigantic gridiron—which, indeed, is the technical name applied to an American football field. 1900 Dial. Notes 2 39 Gridiron, foot-ball field. 1937 L. C. Douglas Forgive us our Trespasses vii. 126 He was gleefully welcomed by young Assistant Coach Roberts and the awkward assembly of prospective gridiron heroes. 1960 T. McLean Kings of Rugby 61 American, or gridiron, football. 1968 C. Drummond Death & Leaping Ladies i. 11 You can't just walk into a team like you can, say, in gridiron or soccer. 4. Short for gridiron pendulum n. at Compounds. ΘΚΠ the world > time > instruments for measuring time > clock > [noun] > pendulum clock > pendulum pendule1660 pendulum1660 simple pendulum1673 bob-pendulum1685 swing1696 quicksilver pendulum1726 pendle1741 gridiron pendulum1751 mercurial pendulum1786 gridiron1793 wanrest1794 seconds pendulum1795 conical pendulum1813 ticker1821 noddy1844 1793 Sir G. Shuckburgh in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 83 88 The pendulum..is a compound gridiron composed of five rods. 5. Short for gridiron manœuvre, etc.: a naval manoeuvre in which the paths taken by the vessels suggest the form of a gridiron. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > operations or manoeuvres > [noun] > formation of ships gridiron1893 1893 Daily News 26 June 6/1 In executing the ‘gridiron’ movement the vessels would at times be very close to each other. 1894 Times 30 July 8/1 The Admiral felt justified in twice putting it [the fleet] through the much-discussed evolution known as the ‘gridiron’. Compounds gridiron carrier n. an open iron framework fixed on a bicycle to carry parcels (cf. grid n. 9). ΚΠ 1897 Earl of Suffolk et al. Encycl. Sport I. 270/1 Large parcels should be carried on a ‘gridiron’ carrier..clamped to the head socket. gridiron-floor n. = sense 3c. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > stage > [noun] > parts above stage shadow1600 fly1805 rigging loft1851 gridiron-floor1881 gridiron1886 fly-gallery1888 grid1927 1881 L. Wagner Pantomimes 57 From the flies a ladder communicates with the gridiron-floor, at the very roof of the stage, frequently at a height of sixty or seventy feet above the footlights. gridiron pendulum n. a compensation pendulum composed of parallel rods of different metals. ΘΚΠ the world > time > instruments for measuring time > clock > [noun] > pendulum clock > pendulum pendule1660 pendulum1660 simple pendulum1673 bob-pendulum1685 swing1696 quicksilver pendulum1726 pendle1741 gridiron pendulum1751 mercurial pendulum1786 gridiron1793 wanrest1794 seconds pendulum1795 conical pendulum1813 ticker1821 noddy1844 1751 Prof. Bliss Let. Jan. in Philos. Trans. 1751–2 (Royal Soc.) (1753) 47 493 Your pendulum takes off the effect of heat and cold as well as either the gridiron-pendulum (as it is commonly called) or the quicksilver pendulum. 1854 J. Scoffern in Orr's Circle Sci., Chem. 115 Another means of avoiding this source of error is the gridiron pendulum..—an invention of Harrison. 1877 G. F. Chambers Handbk. Descr. Astron. (ed. 3) viii. 771 Gridiron compensation pendulum. Categories » gridiron track n. a set of short tracks arranged like a gridiron, used for sorting and shifting railway-carriages (cf. quot. 1892 at sense 3a). gridiron valve n. a sliding valve in which the cover and seat are both composed of parallel bars with spaces between them. ΚΠ 1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Gridiron valve. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022). gridironv. Etymology: < gridiron n.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈgridiron. transitive. To mark with parallel lines or a pattern suggesting the form of a gridiron; said esp. of railways with reference to their appearance on a map. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > fact or condition of being transverse > intersection > intersect [verb (transitive)] > a line > mark or trace with crossing lines criss-cross1818 gridiron1832 1832 Reg. Deb. Congress 4 Apr. 2390 With this revenue we could gridiron our states with railroads. 1857 E. M. Whitty Friends of Bohemia II. 34 Newland has been a blessing to the country..and gridironed the country with railways. 1867 M. E. Braddon Birds of Prey (1868) v. ii. 246 A breakneck gallop across dreary fields gridironed with dykes and stone walls. 1887 J. J. Hissey Holiday on Road i. 17 Railways have gridironed the land all over. 1901 Daily Chron. 5 Apr. 5/2 He won the right to gridiron its hills with an electric system. 1914 Chambers's Jrnl. June 415/2 The Park is gridironed with its own railway system. 1932 R. Kipling Limits & Renewals 110 An open square, near by, eased the pressure before long. Here the Patrol broke into fours, and gridironed it, saluting the images of the Gods at each corner and in the centre. Derivatives ˈgridironing n. New Zealand (see quot. 1910). ΚΠ 1898 E. E. Morris Austral Eng. 176/1 Gridironing, a term used in the province of Canterbury, New Zealand. A man purchased land in the shape of a gridiron, knowing that nobody would take the intermediate strips, which later he could purchase at his leisure. 1910 Le Rossignol & Stewart State Socialism in N.Z. iii. 37 ‘Gridironing’ consisted in buying a series of 20-acre sections so surveyed as to leave 19 acres unbought between each two sections bought; and as no one could buy less than 20 acres without going to auction, the alternating 19-acre sections were left to be occupied by the runholder. ˈgridironer n. New Zealand one who practises gridironing. ΚΠ 1941 S. J. Baker N.Z. Slang iii. 26 Land was purchased in strips,..so that the intervening land was rendered useless to another prospective settler and might be bought at the gridironer's leisure. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.c1290v.1832
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