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Перевод: gridiron

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рашпер ; решетка ; решетка для пытки; сетка ; комплект запасных частей и ремонтных инструментов; сортировочный парк [ж.-д.] ; колосники [театр.] ; футбольное поле

Тезаурус:

1. And why are certain parts of a great city like Birmingham planned on the gridiron pattern, and the rest of it just a jumbled, inchoate mess?
2. One of the few things he could instantly recall from his own brief marriage was his wife's grilling a kipper on a gridiron over the fire.
3. Why are certain English towns, for example, laid out on a gridiron pattern with straight streets crossing each other at right angles, sometimes at fixed distances apart, like a mid-western American city?
4. Names in its neat gridiron of streets reflect the Hanoverian ascendancy of the time: George Street, Queen Street, Princes Street, Hanover Street and Charlotte Square.
5. Cakes baked on the gridiron were regarded as a luxury, and sometimes a substitute for tea was made by pouring boiling water over burnt crusts of bread.
6. Lady Dedlock staying at the Hotel Bristol, Place Vendme, is "bored to death" there (a Parisian Sunday described: people "playing with children among the clipped trees and the statues in the Tuileries Palace Garden; walking, a score abreast, in the Elysian Fields, made more Elysian by performing dogs and wooden houses; between whiles filtering (a few) through the gloomy Cathedral of our Lady, to say a word or two at the base of a pillar, within flare of a rusty little gridiron full of gusty little tapers"), BH 12.
7. Finally, in the middle decades of the nineteenth century, we get once again whole new towns created on the gridiron pattern, of which the outstanding examples are the iron and steel towns of Middlesbrough and Barrow-in-Furness.
8. His belly was a crucible, his ribs were a gridiron, and his fingers were tongs.
9. Gridiron players are taught to tackle head first, driving their facemask into the opponent's chest.
10. It is curious, by the way, that the gridiron plan should have gone on so long.
11. Their park was given over as a whole for building development, and laid out on the gridiron pattern in the middle decades of the eighteenth century.
12. Here a late-19th century district of five or six storey apartments arranged along narrow gridiron streets was suffering from many of the environmental problems characteristic of inner-city areas - lack of greenery, unsafe junctions, chaotic parking conditions and fast traffic, much of it rat-running between neighbouring traffic generators such as the railway station to the south and the four-lane Rhein Allee to the north.
13. Home to gridiron team Orlando Thunder, who play in the World League, it is not on a par with the Joe Robbie stadium in Miami - their bid failed because of the clash with the baseball season - but it is huge and comfortable.