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▪ I. griddle, n.|ˈgrɪd(ə)l|
Forms: 3 gredil(e, 4 gridele, -il, grydel, 5 gredel(le, -yl(e, grydele, -ell, -yl, gridel, griddyll, 8– griddle.
[app. a. early OF. *gredil = greil, grail (mod.F. gril) masc., or *gredille = gradilie, greille (mod.F. grille) fem.: see grill n.4
A Norman grédil, app. meaning ‘gridiron’, is quoted by Moisy from documents of the 16th c.; and an OF. grediller to scorch, crisp at a fire, survived until the 16th c. (when it was replaced by the altered form grésiller); but the relation of these to OF. greil is obscure.]
†1.
a. = gridiron 1. Obs.
1388Wyclif Exod. xxvii. 4 And thou schalt make a brasun gridele [1382 gredyrne, Vulg. craticulam] in the maner of a net. c1400Destr. Troy 13826 A Grydell full gay, gret-full of fiche. c1420Liber Cocorum (1862) 25 Take lamprayes and..rost hom on gredyl. c1450Two Cookery-bks. 114 Haddoke..yrosted on a gridel. 1746Exmoor Scolding Gloss. (E.D.S.) 66 Griddle, a grid-iron.
†b. = gridiron 1 b. Obs.
a1225Ancr. R. 122 Seint Lorens also iðolede þet te gredil hef him upwardes mid berninde gleden. c1290S. Eng. Leg. I. 208/269 Some op-on grediles of Ire i-rostede weren also. Ibid. 277/198 Þe king het a-non þat Men him scholden op-on a strong gredile [v.r. gridire] do. 1447O. Bokenham Seyntys (Roxb.) 107 Summe wyth forkys of yryn ful strong On the grydyl hir turnyd up and down. 1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 249 b/1 He was..tormented uppon a gredyl of yron.
2. a. A circular iron plate upon which cakes are baked; also used for cooking grills, etc. Also attrib. = girdle n.2
1352Durham Acct. Rolls, Grydel pro pane. 1812W. Tennant Anster F. vi. liv, As would a hen leap on a fire⁓hot griddle. 1859Jephson Brittany ii. 19 She poured upon a griddle..some batter. 1875Le Fanu Will. Die i. 12 Sometimes we..made a hot cake, and baked it on the griddle. 1897Mrs. W. M. Ramsay Every Day Life Turkey ii. 48 Large round scones..cooked..on an iron griddle. 1962Economist 29 Dec. 1295/3 The latest [British Railways] idea is the ‘griddle car’—..with a ‘chef-conductor’ grilling steaks and poaching eggs to order. 1963Daily Tel. 8 Jan. 14/1 Meals cooked on the griddle in a matter of minutes may be taken back to seats in other parts of the train or eaten in the Griddle Car itself. 1968Times 2 May 2/3 British Railways are to try out two new types of refreshment car, known respectively as a Griddle Buffet and a Lounge Buffet.
b. Gofer- or waffle-irons. rare.
1853Kane Grinnell Exp. xxxiv. (1856) 306 Like a batter⁓cake between the two disks of a hot griddle.
3. Mining. A wire-bottomed sieve or screen.
1776Pryce Min. Cornub. 233 A person near the Shaft..sifts it [Ore] in a Griddle, or iron wire sieve. 1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, Griddle, Riddle, a miner's wire-bottomed sieve for separating the ore from the halvans.
4. attrib. and Comb., as † griddle-sacrifice, griddle-ful; griddle-hot adj.; griddle-bread, -cake, bread or cake baked on a griddle; † griddle-iron = sense 2.
1841S. C. Hall Ireland II. 25 A few slices of *griddle bread. 1881Daily News 26 Aug. 5/7 Cold mutton fat and griddle bread.
1783Vallancey Collect. III. xii. 460 The good women are employed in making the *griddle cake. 1852Mrs. Stowe Uncle Tom's C. xiii. 118 Mary stood at the stove, baking griddle-cakes.
Ibid. iv. 19 De first *griddle-full of cakes.
1966‘M. Renault’ Mask of Apollo xv. 252 The streets were *griddle-hot and dusty.
1769De Foe's Tour Gt. Brit. IV. 204 The *Gridle-Iron here is a thin Iron Plate..about two Feet in Diameter.
1382Wyclif Lev. ii. 7 If thin offryng shal be..for the *gredil sacrifice [Vulg. sin autem de craticula fuerit sacrificium], euen maner the tried flour shal be spreynt with oile.
▪ II. griddle, v.1|ˈgrɪd(ə)l|
[f. griddle n.]
1. trans. To cook on a griddle.
c1430Two Cookery-bks. 40 Take Venyson or Bef, & leche & gredyl it vp broun. 1887Besant The World went i. 6 He every day fried or griddled a great piece of beef-steak.
2. Mining. to griddle out: to screen ore with a griddle.
1776Pryce Min. Cornub. i. iii. 62 Black Copper Ore..is generally griddled out and put to the pile for sale, as it rises from the Mine.
Hence ˈgriddling vbl. n.
1876T. Hardy Ethelberta (1890) 358 I'll finish the griddling.
▪ III. griddle, v.2 slang.|ˈgrɪd(ə)l|
intr. To sing in the streets as a beggar.
1851Mayhew Lond. Labour (1861) I. 248 Another woman..whose husband had got a month for ‘griddling in the main drag’ (singing in the high street). 1877Besant & Rice Son of Vulc. i. xii. 267 Cardiff Jack's never got so low as to be gridling on the main drag. 1892Daily News 8 Feb. 7/2 They were singing a hymn, or what was better known in the begging fraternity as ‘gridling’.
Hence ˈgriddler, a street singer.
1859in Slang Dict. 1888Besant Fifty Y. Ago iv. 53 There are hymns in every collection which suit the Gridler. |