"roasting jack" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: roasting jacks [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} roasting jack (plural roasting jacks)
  1. (historical) An apparatus for turning the spit on which meat is roasted. Wikipedia link: roasting jack Tags: historical Translations (Translations): stegevender [common-gender] (Danish), tournebroche [masculine] (French), stekvändare [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-roasting_jack-en-noun-ZY39WmaM Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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