† roast-iron Obs.
Forms: 4 rost-iren, -hirne, -ern, 5 -yern, -yryn; roste-iren(e, -iryn, -yren, -y(e)rne.
[f. roast v.]
A gridiron.
The sense in quot. 1519 is not clear.
| a 1350 St. Laurence 255 in Horstm. Altengl. Leg. (1881) 298 Thre sides endlang had it þan..And ouer-thewert with barres brade, Þus als a rostiren was it made. 1373 Exch. Rolls Scotl. II. 450 In vno tripode ferreo siue rosthirne. c 1440 Promp. Parv. 437/1 Rost yryn, or gradyryn, craticula, crates. 1459 Paston Lett. I. 468 Item, j. roste iren with vij staves. 1519 Fabric Rolls York Minster (Surtees) 267 If the lettron in the chapitor were..set in myddys of the hye where [= choir], and the roste yerne in the same where set in ye chapitour. |