The inside plan of the building resembles a circular gridiron gradually depressed toward the center, at which there is a pit, five feet in diameter.

WHEN FISH IS BROILED, it must be seasoned, floured, and laid on a very clean gridiron, which, when hot, should be rubbed with a bit of suet, to prevent the fish from sticking.

And I can keep you dancing on some mighty hot gridirons before I shuffle off.

Well, then, buy all the contraptions that are necessary, but don't omit the plain gridirons and frying-pans.

The revolving gridiron, shown in the engraving, possesses some advantages of convenience, which will be at once apparent.

VINCENT, ST., a Spanish martyr who in 304 was tortured to death; is represented with the instruments of his torture, a spiked gridiron for one, and a raven beside him such as drove away the beasts and birds of prey from his dead body.