'Grill' definitions:

Definition of 'grill'

noun

A restaurant where food is cooked on a grill [syn: grillroom, grill]

noun

A framework of metal bars used as a partition or a grate; "he cooked hamburgers on the grill" [syn: grill, grille, grillwork]

verb

Cook over a grill; "grill the sausages"

verb

Examine thoroughly; "the student was grilled for two hours on the subject of phonology"

From: GCIDE

Grill \Grill\, n. [F. gril. See Grill, v. t.]
1. A gridiron. [1913 Webster]
[They] make grills of [wood] to broil their meat. --Cotton. [1913 Webster]
2. That which is broiled on a gridiron, as meat, fish, etc. [1913 Webster]
3. A figure of crossed bars with interstices, such as those sometimes impressed upon postage stamps. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
4. A grillroom. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

From: GCIDE

Grill \Grill\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Grilled; p. pr. & vb. n. Grilling.] [F. griller, fr. gril gridiron, OF. gra["i]l, L. craticulum for craticula fine hurdlework, a small gridiron, dim. of crates hurdle. See Grate, n.] [1913 Webster]
1. To broil on a grill or gridiron. [1913 Webster]
Boiling of men in caldrons, grilling them on gridirons. --Marvell.
2. To torment, as if by broiling. --Dickens. [1913 Webster]
3. To stamp or mark with a grill. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

From: GCIDE

Grill \Grill\, v. i. To undergo the process of being grilled, or broiled; to broil.
He had grilled in the heat, sweated in the rains. --Kipling. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]