gridiron suomeksi - Sanakirja.org (englanti-suomi)

An instrument of torture on which people were secured before being burned by fire.
Any object resembling the rack or grate.
An iron rack or grate used for broiling meat and fish over coals.
(nautical) An openwork frame on which vessels are placed for examination, cleaning, and repairs.
(theater) A raised framework from which lighting is suspended.
(American football) The field on which American football is played.
(uncountable, Australia and New Zealand) American and Canadian football, particularly when used to distinguish from other codes of football.

To mark or cover with lines; to crisscross.
(New Zealand, historical) To purchase land so that the remaining adjacent sections are smaller than the minimum area purchasable as freehold, thus excluding potential freeholders.

I know, there have been found seely boores, who have rather endure to have their feet broiled upon a Greedyron, their fingers ends crusht and wrung with the lock of a Pistoll, their eyes all bloody to be thrust out of their heads with wringing and wresting of a cord about their foreheads, before they would so much as be ransomed.
He represented Australia in this year′s rugby tour of England and is as well-known in Australia as any top gridiron player is in the United States.
So Jackie′s name became known far and wide as an exceptional gridiron player.
119 Yasser (1985) cites the famous US example of gridiron player Dick Butkus of the Chicago Bears.

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