TOASTING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does toasting mean? 

• TOASTING (noun)
  The noun TOASTING has 1 sense:

1. cooking to a brown crispiness over a fire or on a grill

  Familiarity information: TOASTING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TOASTING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cooking to a brown crispiness over a fire or on a grill

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

browning; toasting

Context example:

proper toasting should brown both sides of a piece of bread

Hypernyms ("toasting" is a kind of...):

cookery; cooking; preparation (the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat)

Derivation:

toast (make brown and crisp by heating)

 Context examples 

She had seen Agnes, she told me while she was toasting.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

"No, it's the toasting fork, with Mother's shoe on it instead of the bread. Beth's stage-struck!" cried Meg, and the rehearsal ended in a general burst of laughter.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Old times crowded fast back on me as I watched her bustling about—setting out the tea-tray with her best china, cutting bread and butter, toasting a tea-cake, and, between whiles, giving little Robert or Jane an occasional tap or push, just as she used to give me in former days.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I liked the things and the kisses, but it was dreadful to have you sit looking at me while I opened the bundles, said Beth, who was toasting her face and the bread for tea at the same time.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)