barbecue

A fireplace or pit for grilling food, typically used outdoors and traditionally employing hot charcoal as the heating medium.

We cooked our food on the barbecue.

A meal or event highlighted by food cooked in such an apparatus.

We're having a barbecue on Saturday, and you're invited.

Meat, especially pork or beef, which has been cooked in such an apparatus (i.e. smoked over indirect heat from high-smoke fuels) and then chopped up or shredded.

She ordered a plate of barbecue with a side of slaw.

A hog, ox, or other large animal roasted or broiled whole for a feast.

A floor on which coffee beans are sun-dried.

Drying the coffee beans took place in a barbecue, basically a large, flat platform, where the pulped coffee beans could be laid out and turned as they dried. Barbecues were often walled around and raised above ground level.

To cook food on a barbecue; to smoke food over indirect heat from high-smoke fuels.

To grill.

To kill or destroy using high heat or fire; to cook; to burn.

Then he picked up a flamethrower and he barbecued Blitzen And he took a big bite and said, "It tastes just like chicken"