Definitions for roaster

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roaster roast·er

Spelling: [roh-ster]

IPA: /ˈroʊ stər/

Roaster is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 223 anagrams from letters in roaster (aeorrst).

Definitions for roaster

noun

1. a contrivance for roasting something, as an oven, a pan for roasting meat, or a machine for roasting coffee beans.
2. a pig, chicken, or other animal or article of a size convenient and grade suitable for roasting.
3. a person or thing that roasts.
4. a guest speaker at a roast.
5. hot Jupiter.
6. roasted meat or a piece of roasted meat, as a piece of beef or veal of a quantity and shape for slicing into more than one portion.
7. a piece of meat for roasting.
8. something that is roasted.
9. the act or process of roasting.
10. Informal. severe criticism.
11. a facetious ceremonial tribute, usually concluding a banquet, in which the guest of honor is both praised and good-naturedly insulted in a succession of speeches by friends and acquaintances.
12. an outdoor get-together, as a picnic or barbecue, at which food is roasted and eaten:

adjective

1. roasted:

verb (used with object)

1. to bake (meat or other food) uncovered, especially in an oven.
2. to cook (meat or other food) by direct exposure to dry heat, as on a spit.
3. to brown, dry, or parch by exposure to heat, as coffee beans.
4. to cook or heat by embedding in hot coals, embers, etc.:
5. to heat excessively:
6. Metallurgy. to heat (ore or the like) in air in order to oxidize it.
7. to warm at a hot fire:
8. Informal. to ridicule or criticize severely or mercilessly.
9. to honor with or subject to a roast:

verb (used without object)

1. to roast meat or other food.
2. to undergo the process of becoming roasted.

Origin of roaster

late Middle English word dating back to 1400-50; See origin at roast, -er¹

Examples for roaster

All of them kept coming to smell the air above the saucepans and the roaster.

In general strength and durability the roaster and Spotty were one.

Alec described to the Captain the method of making the roaster.

Six roaster patents were issued to other inventors in 1878–79.

In 1882, the Hungerfords, father and son, brought out a roaster.

The roaster has survived, but the coffee maker was not so fortunate.

In 1908, an improved type of Burns roaster was patented in the United States.

Set it to brown in an oven, or put it on the spit of a roaster.

Flour it well, and put two or three gills of water in the roaster.

But many a saw-back fell that day, of all ages, from roaster to patriarch.