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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

  1. noun A thin rod used to skewer and rotate meat while it cooks over a fire.
  2. noun Saliva, especially when spat out.
  3. noun A narrow strip of sand or land jutting out into water.
  4. verb To forcefully eject saliva from the mouth.
  5. verb To rain very lightly.

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