meatscreen

plural meatscreens

1. obsoleteA heat-reflecting screen that is used to roast or cook meat.

   We have now only one engraving to call attention to--that which represents a curly-haired little boy reposing under an apparatus which looks like a meatscreen.

   1862, Frank Leslie's Ladies' Magazine, Frank Leslie, page 318

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   A foreigner, be he a Frenchman, American, or Dutchman, if introduced to the 'kitchen,' would stare with astonishment if you told him that in this plain apartment, with its immense fire, meatscreen, gridirons, and a small tub under the window for washing the glasses, the statesmen of England very often dine, and men, possessed of wealth untold.

   1899, John Timbs, Club Life of London, Outlook Verlag, page 147

   I, myself, saw one zealous individual thus encumbered-with a stew- pan on his head, the meatscreen under one arm, the dripping-pan under the other, the frying-pan in his right hand, the gridiron in his left, and the rolling-pin in his mouth.

   1830, Thomas Hood, The Comic Annual, Hurst, Chance, and Company, page 10