roasting-jack

Power unknown to me, hazily called “The Trade,” that a brass coal-scuttle, a roasting-jack, and a birdcage, were obliged to be put into it to make a Lot of it, and then it went for a song.

The Haunted House 2007

Power unknown to me, hazily called “The Trade,” that a brass coal-scuttle, a roasting-jack, and a birdcage, were obliged to be put into it to make a Lot of it, and then it went for a song.

The Haunted House 2007

My own little bed was so superciliously looked upon by a Power unknown to me, hazily called “The Trade,” that a brass coal-scuttle, a roasting-jack, and a birdcage, were obliged to be put into it to make a Lot of it, and then it went for a song.

The Haunted House by Charles Dickens | Solar Flare: Science Fiction News 2004

I once had my own fancies, but I think they must have been sweat out of me in my constancy to my brothers 'oven-grate and roasting-jack.

Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure Neil Munro

The roasting-jack, with a wind-up weight by which the spit was turned, cut him out first of all; other inventions further diminished his importance.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859 Various

But as he passed behind the settle, Harriet saw him unwind the chain and drop it unobtrusively into the drain-pipe, setting the roasting-jack upright against the wall.

Busman's Honeymoon Sayers, Dorothy L. 1937

‘Thank you, my lord,’ said Mr Bunter, woodenly, stooping his neck to the chain and meekly receiving the roasting-jack in his right hand.

Busman's Honeymoon Sayers, Dorothy L. 1937

"And me just home from Plymouth with a fine new roasting-jack!" chimed in Mrs. Polwhele.

News from the Duchy Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

But never a spade or pick, never a roasting-jack or flat-iron, never a string of beads or a mirror for barter with natives was to be found in all those boxes.

Marjorie 1898

Nowhere at club or restaurant, with rare exceptions, can you obtain meat roasted in the old-fashioned way on a roasting-jack, carefully "basted" during the process, and served when exactly cooked to a turn.

More Science From an Easy Chair 1888