Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One that roasts.
- noun A special pan or apparatus for roasting.
- noun Something, especially a young chicken, that is fit for roasting.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A muffle or furnace used for roastingore, usually of the reverberatory type; specifically, the furnace in which blister-copper is produced.
- noun One who or that which roasts: as, a meat-roaster.
- noun Specifically, the finishing-furnace in the Leblanc process of making ball-soda.
- noun A pig or other animal or article fit for roasting.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who roasts meat.
- noun A contrivance for roasting.
- noun A pig, or other article of food fit for roasting.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who
roasts food. - noun cooking A
kitchen utensil used forroasting . - noun A
chicken ,pig , etc. suitable for roasting. - noun One who
roasts or banters, especially as a comedy routine.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a special cooking pan for roasting
- noun a harsh or humorous critic (sometimes intended as a facetious compliment)
- noun a cook who roasts food
- noun flesh of a large young chicken over 3 1/2 lb suitable for roasting
Etymologies
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Examples
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It’s nice if the roaster is pretty enough to serve in, although it’s not crucial since you’ll need take the bird out to carve it anyway.
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It’s nice if the roaster is pretty enough to serve in, although it’s not crucial since you’ll need take the bird out to carve it anyway.
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Directly in front of his roaster was a home-made cooling pan, the sides of which were of wood, the bottom covered with a fine grade of wire screening.
All About Coffee 1909
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In 1903, George C. Lester, of New York, was granted a United States patent on an electric coffee roaster, that is, a machine to roast by electric heat.
All About Coffee 1909
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The roaster should be a closed sphere or cylinder.
All About Coffee 1909
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Every family should be provided with a coffee roaster, which is an iron cylinder to stand before the fire, and is either turned by a handle, or wound up like a jack to go of itself.
Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches Eliza Leslie 1822
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The salmon was sent me with a basket of vegetables from Plymouth, I suspect from Captain Markham; the roaster was a present from Captain Hood, who, being under sail, could not dine with me.
Memoirs and Correspondence of Admiral Lord de Saumarez, Vol. I John Ross 1816
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These include records regarding in-house tests for salmonella and the operation of the peanut roaster, which is used to kill contamination.
Metro News | ajc.com 2009
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"roaster" which means it is meant to roast a chicken, I only used it for meatloaf.
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AIGA, the professional association for design Square One Design aimed for coffee that "the average Joe" could like Perking Up Coffee Sales Project: Packaging for Midwest roaster Paramount.
bilby commented on the word roaster
"WTF are you going on about ya roaster?" - internet message board (related to Scotland), 16 Dec 2007.
December 17, 2007