英语词汇gridiron的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

gridiron. Gridiron is a football term inspired by Walter Camp, the father of american football, when his rules for the game made it necessary to mark the football field with hori- zontal white lines at five-yard intervals. This arrangement sug- gested to fans that the word gridiron derived from griddle plus iron, for the bars running across the field did make it resemble an iron griddle or grate. But in fact gridiron was originally the name for a metal barrel griddle and comes from the Middle En- glish gredire, “griddle,” which in turn developed from the Old French gridel.

词汇	gridiron
词源	gridiron. Gridiron is a football term inspired by Walter Camp, the father of american football, when his rules for the game made it necessary to mark the football field with hori- zontal white lines at five-yard intervals. This arrangement sug- gested to fans that the word gridiron derived from griddle plus iron, for the bars running across the field did make it resemble an iron griddle or grate. But in fact gridiron was originally the name for a metal barrel griddle and comes from the Middle En- glish gredire, “griddle,” which in turn developed from the Old French gridel.
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