Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Grill

Grill , noun

[French gril. See Grill, transitive verb]

1.
A gridiron.
[They] make grills of [wood] to broil their meat. — Cotton
2.
That which is broiled on a gridiron, as meat, fish, etc.
3.
A figure of crossed bars with interstices, such as those sometimes impressed upon postage stamps.
4.
A grillroom.

Grill , transitive verb

[French griller, from gril gridiron, Old French grail, Latin craticulum for craticula fine hurdlework, a small gridiron, dim. of crates hurdle. See Grate, n.]

1.
To broil on a grill or gridiron.
Boiling of men in caldrons, grilling them on gridirons. — Marvell
2.
To torment, as if by broiling. — Dickens
3.
To stamp or mark with a grill.

Grill , intransitive verb

To undergo the process of being grilled, or broiled; to broil.
He had grilled in the heat, sweated in the rains. — Kipling