spit-roaster
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.47 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An appliance for spit-roasting.
noun
One who spit-roasts.
Example Sentences
- "Most modern spit-roasters have attachments for kebab skewers, and this is the best way of cooking these delicious foods."
- "The spit rods for some spit-roasters have holes drilled into them every 6 inches or so. […] Some spit-roasters have skewers that mount onto the spit from the pointed end of the rod only. If that’s the case with your spit-roaster, slide the rear skewer onto the rod before you push the rod through the lamb."
- "On the other side of the courtyard, big arches opened into the kitchens. There were two kitchens: One, with ovens and spit-roasters visible, was given over primarily to meat."
- "The nobles’ servants were allowed to choose their birds first, then the bourgeois, and at 10 or 11 o’clock, according to the season, a bell was rung and the spit-roasters could buy their supplies."
- "There was an air of festivity everywhere, and it was obvious that nothing else in their lives could give the ordinary citizens of Glevum so much delight as […] eating and drinking the appetizing wares of the stall holders—pie-makers, bakers, spit-roasters and brewers—who appeared to be selling food everywhere and were being paid in the small Roman-minted copper coins called ases, […]"
- "Some spit-roasters like to leave the legs dangling, but the spit needs to be quite high off the heat to do this successfully."
Etymology
From spit-roast + -er.