griddle.
A stone or metal flat plate or surface on which food is fried or baked.
Meaning & usage
A stone or metal flat plate or surface on which food is fried or baked.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English gridil, from Anglo-Norman gredil, variant of Old French greil, from Latin crāticulum, diminutive of crātis. Doublet of grill (“grid of wire”), from the same Old French and Latin sources, doublet of grate.
To cook on a griddle.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English gridil, from Anglo-Norman gredil, variant of Old French greil, from Latin crāticulum, diminutive of crātis. Doublet of grill (“grid of wire”), from the same Old French and Latin sources, doublet of grate.
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