barbecue (bar beku)

[Also barbacue, and formerly barbicue, barbecu, borbecu = Sp. barb a coa, Haytian barbacoa, a framework of sticks set upon posts. In Cuba barbacoa designates a platform or floor in the top story of country houses where fruits and grain are kept.] 1. A wooden framework used for supporting over a fire meat or fish to be smoked or dried.-2. An iron frame on which large joints are placed for broiling, or on which whole animals are roasted; a large gridiron.-3. The carca of an ox, hog, or other animal, roasted whole. A kid that had been cooked in a hole in the ground, with embers upon it. This is called a "barbacoa" - a bar . becue . Tylor , Anahuac, iv. 95. ( N. E. D. ) 4. A large social or political entertainment in the open air, at which animals are roasted whole, and feasting on a generous scale is indulged in. [U.S.]-5. An open floor or terrace smoothly covered with plaster or asphalt, on which to dry coffee-beans, etc. barbecue (bär bē-kū), v. t.; pret. and pp. bar becued, ppr. barbecuing. [ Rich puddings and big, and a barbecued pig. Barham , In golds by Legends, I. 228. barbed1 (bärbd), p. a. [ lon, ii. 7. And, with the same strong hand That flung the barbed spear, he tilled the land. Bryant , Christmas in 1875. 3. In her.: (a) Having barbs: said of the rose used as a bearing. The barbs are commonly colored green, and the blazon is a rose gules barbed proper. (b) Having gills or wattles, as a cock: as, a cock sable, barbed or (that is, a black cock having golden gills). Also called wattled. (c) Having the ends made with barbs like those of an arrow-head: said especially of a cro of this form. Also called bearded. Barbed bolt. See bolt 1. Barbed shot, a shot having barbs or grapnels. It is fired from a mortar to carry a life-line to a wreck. - Barbed wire, two or more wires twisted together, with spikes, hooks, or points clinched or woven into the strands, or a single wire furnished with sharp points or barbs: used for fences, and so made for the restraint of animals. barbed (bärbd), p. a. [