espetar — meaning in English
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English meaning
- spit noun A thin rod used to skewer and rotate meat while it cooks over a fire.
Senses
espetar is used for these senses in English:
- spit (transitive) To use a spit to cook; to attend to food that is cooking on a spit.
- spit roast (cooking) The technique of roasting an animal over a fire, where the cook pokes a rod through the animal and sets the ends on two sticks to suspend the animal over the fire.
spit — full definition
- noun A thin rod used to skewer and rotate meat while it cooks over a fire.
- noun Saliva, especially when spat out.
- noun A narrow strip of sand or land jutting out into water.
- verb To forcefully eject saliva from the mouth.
- verb To rain very lightly.