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Roaster   /rˈoʊstər/   Listen
Roaster

noun
1.
A harsh or humorous critic (sometimes intended as a facetious compliment).
2.
A cook who roasts food.
3.
Flesh of a large young chicken over 3 1/2 lb suitable for roasting.
4.
A special cooking pan for roasting.



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"Roaster" Quotes from Famous Books



... that he knew Proctor, and was employed by him at the latter end of April, 1817, to gather black and white thorn leaves. Sloe leaves were the black thorn. Witness also knew John Malins, the son of William Malins, a coffee-roaster; he did not at first know the purpose for which the leaves were gathered, but afterwards learnt they were to make imitation tea. Witness did not gather more than one hundred and a half weight of these leaves; but ...
— A Treatise on Adulterations of Food, and Culinary Poisons • Fredrick Accum

... hanging over the fire, but the great novelty that caught the girl scouts' attention, at once, was the roaster upon which a nice brown chicken was swinging before ...
— Girl Scouts in the Adirondacks • Lillian Elizabeth Roy

... notice how tiresome the whistle on a peanut roaster gets? Well, suppose that whenever you spoke you had to utter your words in exactly that pitch; that every time a car came down the street its noise was like the whistle of the peanut roaster, only louder; that every step you took sounded like hitting a bell of ...
— Common Science • Carleton W. Washburne

... sometimes, and I'd swap the entire perquisites of office for just one hour to have a stein and a caviare sandwich somewhere on Thirty-fourth Street, and stand and watch the street cars go by, and smell the peanut roaster at old ...
— Cabbages and Kings • O. Henry

... cold, truculent eyes on the old negress. "A turkey roaster," he snapped. "Some o' you niggers stole Miss Lou Arkwright's ...
— Birthright - A Novel • T.S. Stribling



Words linked to "Roaster" :   witticism, pan, humor, wit, volaille, Oven Stuffer, baster, wittiness, roast, Oven Stuffer Roaster, critic, humour, cook, chicken, cooking pan, poulet



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