the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. An iron plate or pan used for cooking cakes.
n. A sieve with a wire bottom, used by miners.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. A grated utensil for broiling flesh and fish: same as gridiron
n. A broad disk or shallow pan of iron, used chiefly for cooking thin cakes over a fire.
n. A griddle-cake.
n. In mining, a sieve with a wire bottom.
n. One of the iron plates fitted as lids to the round apertures for cooking-utensils in the top of a cooking-stove or range.
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v. cook on a griddle
n. cooking utensil consisting of a flat heated surface (as on top of a stove) on which food is cooked
Word Usage
"If the batter, for example, contains an acid of some kind, like buttermilk is frequently used in griddle cakes, pancakes, that kind of thing, then the baking soda will react with the acid in the buttermilk to make bubbles."