babracot

English

Noun

babracot (plural babracots)

1. A grate used by some native South Americans to roast meat.
   • 1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 8, page 236:

     Before they leave a temporary camp in the forest, where they have killed a tapir and dried the meat on a babracot, the Indians of Guiana invariably destroy this babracot.

Verb

babracot (third-person singular simple present babracots, present participle babracoting, simple past and past participle babracoted)

1. To roast on the babracot.
   • 1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 8, page 236:

     Should a tapir passing that way find traces of the slaughter of one of his kind, he would come by night on the next occasion when Indians slept at that place, and, taking a man, would babracot him in revenge.