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roaster (iou) and Grackle (medicine)


roaster (iou)



roaster noun. LME.
[from ROAST verb + -ER1.]
I.
A person who roasts something. LME.
b. spec. An industrial processor of raw coffee beans. L19.
a. A pan or dish in which meat etc. may be roasted, a roasting-tin. M17.
b. A kind of oven in which meat etc. can be roasted. L18.
A furnace used in roasting ore. M19.
An apparatus for roasting coffee beans. M19.
A very hot day with a scorching sun. colloq. L19.
II.
A pig, fowl, or Other article of Food fit for roasting. L15.

Grackle (medicine)


grackle
<ornithology> One of several American blackbirds, of the family Icteridae; as, the rusty grackle (Scolecophagus Carolinus); the boat-tailed grackle (see Boat-tail); the purple grackle (Quiscalus quiscula, or Q. Versicolour). See Crow blackbird, under Crow.

An Asiatic bird of the genus Gracula. See Myna.

Origin: Cf. L. Graculus jackdaw.

Source: Websters Dictionary