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Definition of Hibachi

1. Noun. A portable brazier that burns charcoal and has a grill for cooking.

2. Verb. Cook over a hibachi grill. "The chefs hibachi the vegetables"

Definition of Hibachi

1. Noun. A portable brazier, powered by charcoal, used for cooking. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Hibachi

1. a cooking device [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hibachi

hiatus maxillaris hiatus oesophageus hiatus of canal for greater petrosal nerve hiatus of canal of lesser petrosal nerve hiatus of facial canal hiatus sacralis hiatus saphenus hiatus semilunaris hiatus subarcuatus hiatus tendineus

hiatus totalis sacralis hiatuses hib immunization hib vaccine hiba arborvitae hibachi (current term) hibachis hibakusha hibakushas hibbingite

hibernacle hibernacles hibernacula hibernaculum hibernal hibernate hibernated hibernates hibernating hibernating(a)

Literary usage of Hibachi

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Unbeaten Tracks in Japan: An Account of Travels in the Interior Including by Isabella Lucy Bird (1881)
"Time which should be usefully occupied, is completely taken up in hugging a hibachi, by which means the hands and chest are kept tolerably warm, ..."

2. A Japanese Interior by Alice Mabel Bacon (1893)
"A hibachi. — Two Old Ladies.— My Paper Dining-Room. — Funeral Fashions. — An Official Funeral. — Simplicity of Japanese Living. — Posthumous Titles. ..."

3. Japanese-English and English-Japanese Dictionary by James Curtis Hepburn (1881)
"hibachi, n. A brazier, or pan for holding hot coals. HI-BAN. Not on duty, off-duty. Kon- the daily growth. HI-DAMA, n. Will of the wisp, ..."

4. The Life and Letters of Lafcadio Hearn by Elizabeth Bisland, Lafcadio Hearn (1906)
"The winter hibachi for smoking purposes has, of course, many forms; — some of the daintiest being ... The smoker, who finds a handsome bronze hibachi placed ..."

5. Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan by Asiatic Society of Japan (1889)
"It is only because of the extreme airiness of a Japanese room that the hibachi or charcoal brazier can be tolerated ; for the sole merits of the Japanese ..."

6. The Writings of Lafcadio Hearn by Lafcadio Hearn (1922)
"The winter hibachi for smoking purposes has, of course, many forms; ... The smoker, who finds a handsome bronze hibachi placed before him on a winter's day, ..."

7. Japan as Seen and Described by Famous Writers by Esther Singleton (1904)
"heels on a cushion (zabuton); and he must have his hibachi or fire vessel, ... The hibachi is a portable fire-place, which throws out a slight heat, ..."

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