toaster1 (toster)

[ "Come and look at 'em! here 's toasters ! " bellows one with a Yarmouth bloater stuck on a toasting-fork. Mayhew, London Labour and London Poor, I. 11. IMG:content-0508.png:[blocks in formation] toasting-fork (tōs'ting-fôrk), n. 1. A large fork with several prongs and a long handle, for toasting bread at an open fire. 2. A sword. [Ludicrous.] If I had given him time to get at his other pistol, or his toasting-fork, it was all up. T. Hughes, Tom Brown at Oxford, II. xvii. toasting-gla (tōs'ting-glas), n. A drinking gla used for toasts, and inscribed with the name of a belle, or with verses in her honor. Garth, Toasting-Gla es of the Kit-Cat Club (1703).