n. [ In the language of the (Arawak or Taino) Indians of Guiana, barbacoa a frame on which all kinds of flesh and fish are roasted or smoke-dried. ]
v. t.
They use little or no salt, but barbecue their game and fish in the smoke. Stedman. [ 1913 Webster ]
Send me, gods, a whole hog barbecued. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]
adj. Cooked on a barbecue.