cooking utensil for broiling over a fire, early 14c., griderne, alteration (by association with iron) of gridire (late 13c.), a variant of gridil (see griddle). Confusion of "l" and "r" was common in Norman dialect. Also a medieval instrument of torture by fire. As the word for a U.S. football field, by 1896, for its lines.
例文
1. His name was on the gridiron at Westminster.
彼の名前は英国議会で非難されている。
2.They laid the prisoner on the gridiron .
彼らはこの囚人を苦しめた。
3.He is the greatest quarterback in gridiron history.
ラグビー場史上最も偉大な四分衛である。
4.She turned a cake on the gridiron .
彼女はグリルの上でケーキをひっくり返した。
5. Gridiron grind is our September promation that is football related.What 's better than poker and football?