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Pronunciation varies by accent · verb
(transitive) To roast (meat) on a spit (“metal or wooden rod”)..
Even the men participated when we spit-roasted a whole lamb for Greek Easter in the American-Greek couple’s backyard.
Last summer we spit-roasted a baby lamb (slaughtered the day before) over a birch fire at our camp in the Rangeley Lake region of Maine.
That first night we spit-roasted a goat over wood we burned to embers.
Use spit-roast when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Spit-roast means (transitive) To roast (meat) on a spit (“metal or wooden rod”)..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Even the men participated when we spit-roasted a whole lamb for Greek Easter in the American-Greek couple’s backyard.
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