gridiron

amerikkalainen jalkapallokenttä

halstari An instrument of torture on which people were secured before being burned by fire. (defdate)
(RQ:Flr Mntgn Essay), II.32:

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.

This basin of Szechuan (literally "Four Streams," but which, reading the character idiographically, I should be inclined to render as "Gridironed by Streams"), (..)

Another logical method is that of gridironing the field by a series of straight paths that are parallel to each other.

When Billy saw the culprit's naked back under the scourge gridironed with red welts, and worse (..) Billy was horrified.

His white back, gridironed with scars, was as soft as a baby's.

Railways spanned the continent and gridironed the states.