spit-roast
verb1
To roast (meat) on a spit (“metal or wooden rod”).
- Even the men participated when we spit-roasted a whole lamb for Greek Easter in the American-Greek couple’s backyard.1999, Betty Fussell, “Hot Grills”, in My Kitchen Wars, New York, N.Y.: North Point Press, →ISBN, page 127:
- Last summer we spit-roasted a baby lamb (slaughtered the day before) over a birch fire at our camp in the Rangeley Lake region of Maine.2010, Mariana de Saint Phalle, “Letter #5: Late Summer, 1984”, in Mimi Allen, editor, Mariana’s Letters: Writings & Recipes, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 53:
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- That first night we spit-roasted a goat over wood we burned to embers.2015 May, Chris Fischer with Catherine Young, “High Summer”, in The Beetlebung Farm Cookbook: A Year of Cooking on Martha’s Vineyard, New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, pages 225–226:
- Derived terms
- spit-roaster, spit-roasting
- Related terms
- spit roast