Definition of "salamander" A long , slender , chiefly terrestrial amphibian of the order Caudata , superficially resembling a lizard . quotations examples
Quotations […] and most plainly Pierius , whose words in his hieroglyphicks are these : "Whereas it is commonly said that a salamander extinguisheth fire , we have found by experience that it is so far from quenching hot coals , that it dyeth immediately therein ."
1672, Thomas Browne, “Pseudodoxia Epidemica”, in Simon Wilkin, editor, The Works of Sir Thomas Browne, volume 1, published 1852, page 292
Devils Lake is where I began my career as a limnologist in 1964, studying the lake ’s neotenic salamanders and chironomids , or midge flies . […] The Devils Lake Basin is an endorheic , or closed , basin covering about 9,800 square kilometers in northeastern North Dakota .
2012 January, Douglas Larson, “Runaway Devils Lake”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 23 May 2012, page 46
(mythology) A creature much like a lizard that is resistant to and lives in fire (in which it is often depicted in heraldry ), hence the elemental being of fire . quotations
Quotations "There is a vulgar error ," says the author of the Brief Natural History , p . 91, "that a salamander lives in the fire . Yet both Galen and Dioscorides refute this opinion ; and Mathiolus , in his Commentaries upon Dioscorides , a very famous physician , affirms of them , that by casting of many a salamander into the fire for tryal he found it false . The same experiment is likewise avouched by Joubertus ."
1849, John Brand, Observations on the Popular Antiquities of Great Britain: Chiefly Illustrating the Origin of Our Vulgar and Provincial Customs, Ceremonies, and Superstitions, volume 3, page 372
(cooking) A small broiler (North America ) or grill (Britain ) that heats the food from above , used in professional cookery primarily for browning . quotations examples
Quotations Overfired grills , or salamanders , can , in addition , be used for making toast and salamandering . They have the heat source above the food […] . This may comprise sets of burners firing below refractory or metal frets , or surface combustion plaques .
2006, Frank Saxon, editor, Tolley's Industrial and Commercial Gas Installation Practice [Gas Service Technology; 3], 4th edition, Oxford, Burlington, Mass.: Elsevier Newnes, page 35
verb third-person singular simple present salamanders , present participle salamandering , simple past and past participle salamandered
To use a salamander (cooking utensil ) in a cooking process . quotations examples
Quotations Overfired grills , or salamanders , can , in addition , be used for making toast and salamandering . They have the heat source above the food […] . This may comprise sets of burners firing below refractory or metal frets , or surface combustion plaques .
2006, Frank Saxon, editor, Tolley's Industrial and Commercial Gas Installation Practice [Gas Service Technology; 3], 4th edition, Oxford, Burlington, Mass.: Elsevier Newnes, page 35