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  Near the foundation of the probable bake shop, a pair of kilns once served for slaking lime, and perhaps for firing pottery. Between the kilns was a flame-scarred pit containing evidence of ironworking and the roasting of bog ore for iron
• WordNet 3.6
  • adj roast (meat) cooked by dry heat in an oven
  • v roast cook with dry heat, usually in an oven "roast the turkey"
  • v roast subject to laughter or ridicule "The satirists ridiculed the plans for a new opera house","The students poked fun at the inexperienced teacher","His former students roasted the professor at his 60th birthday"
  • n roast negative criticism
  • n roast a piece of meat roasted or for roasting and of a size for slicing into more than one portion
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• Interesting fact: Dandelion root can be roasted and ground as a coffee substitute
• • Roast Hence, to heat to excess; to heat violently; to burn. "Roasted in wrath and fire."
  • a Roast Roasted; as, roast beef.
  • n Roast That which is roasted; a piece of meat which has been roasted, or is suitable for being roasted. "A fat swan loved he best of any roost roast]."
  • Roast To banter severely.
  • Roast To cook by exposure to radiant heat before a fire; as, to roast meat on a spit, or in an oven open toward the fire and having reflecting surfaces within; also, to cook in a close oven.
  • Roast To cook by surrounding with hot embers, ashes, sand, etc.; as, to roast a potato in ashes. "In eggs boiled and roasted there is scarce difference to be discerned."
  • Roast To cook meat, fish, etc., by heat, as before the fire or in an oven. "He could roast , and seethe, and broil, and fry."
  • Roast (Metal) To dissipate by heat the volatile parts of, as ores.
  • Roast To dry and parch by exposure to heat; as, to roast coffee; to roast chestnuts, or peanuts.
  • Roast To undergo the process of being roasted.
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• Interesting fact: Termites are roasted and eaten like popcorn in South Africa
• • roast To cook, dress, or prepare (meats) for eating, originally on a grate or gridiron over or beneath a fire (broiling), but now by exposure to the direct action of dry heat (toasting). Roasting is generally performed by revolving the article on a spit or a string before a fire, with a reflector or Dutch oven to concentrate the heat: in primitive cookery hot ashes serve a similar purpose. Meat cooked over or beneath a fire, on a gridiron, is now said to be broiled; and meat cooked in a stove- or range-oven, where it does not receive the direct action of the fire, is properly said to be baked (though generally said to be roasted).
  • roast To heat to excess; heat violently.
  • roast To dry and parch by exposure to heat: as, to roast coffee.
  • roast In metallurgy, to heat with access of air. ; . The objects of roasting substances are various: to expel from them something which can be separated by heat alone, as when calamin (carbonate of zinc) is roasted in order to expel the carbonic acid
  • roast To expose (a person) to scathing ridicule or jesting, as by a company of persons, or for the amusement of a company.
  • roast To perform the act of cooking by the direct action of dry heat.
  • roast To become roasted or fit for eating by exposure to fire; hence, to be overheated or parched.
  • roast Roasted: as, roast beef; roast meat.
  • n roast That which is roasted, specifically a piece of beef; that part of a slaughtered animal which is selected for roasting, as a sirloin of beef or a shoulder of mutton.
  • roast In agriculture, in the process of bare-fallowing, to subject (the soil) to the full force of the sun in order to kill the weeds.
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• Interesting fact: Coffee is generally roasted between 400F and 425F. The longer it is roasted, the darker the roast. Roasting time is usually from ten to twenty minutes.
• • v.t Roast rōst to cook before a fire, or in an oven: to expose a person to ridicule: to parch by exposure to heat: to heat to excess: to dissipate the volatile parts of by heat
  • n Roast that which is roasted
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• Chinese Proverb

  

  “Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time.”
• Confucius

  

  “Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.”
• Helen Rowland

  

  “Wedding: the point at which a man stops toasting a woman and begins roasting her.”

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