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/tˈoʊstɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Toast v. t. (past & past part. toasted; pres. part. toasting)

To dry and brown by the heat of a fire; as, to toast bread.

To warm thoroughly; as, to toast the feet.

To name when a health is proposed to be drunk; to drink to the health, or in honor, of; as, to toast a lady.

adjective

Toasting adj. A. & n. from Toast, v.

Toasting fork, a long-handled fork for toasting bread, cheese, or the like, by the fire.

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Etymology of 'Toasting'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Toasting" Quotes from Famous Books

... no attempt at conversation and nothing was heard but the sounds of eating and drinking and the drizzling of the bloater which Easton, one of the painters, was toasting on the end of a ...

— The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists • Robert Tressell

... her?" persisted Ruth, who was toasting herself in front of the open fire while Dorothy got out ...

— Glenloch Girls • Grace M. Remick

... off we push in another minute. And our pace is certainly rather slow, For everybody wants to row; And there's any amount of laugh and chatter, And crabs are caught, but it doesn't matter; For we're all afloat In an open boat, And the breeze is light and the sky is blue, And the sun is toasting us through and through. ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, May 27, 1914 • Various

... very nice," said the lad. "Ah, the toasting takes it off. Four days out. That's as long as we go with the same bread. ...

— Jack at Sea - All Work and no Play made him a Dull Boy • George Manville Fenn

... ay; friendship without freedom is as dull as love without enjoyment or wine without toasting: but to tell you a secret, these are trulls whom he allows coach-hire, and something more by the week, to call on him once a day at ...

— The Way of the World • William Congreve

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