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andiron

[and-ahy-ern] / ˈændˌaɪ ərn /
NOUN
metal fireplace support
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She falls, strikes her head against a fraternity andiron.

From Time Magazine Archive

On display in Manhattan's Robinson Galleries last week went a Wheelock retrospective show that started with the dachshund andiron, ended in 1940 with a crisp, stylized figure of Washington at Valley Forge.

From Time Magazine Archive

"That's strange," muttered Goody Brown, as she sat before the buried fire with a foot planted on each andiron, meditating on the conversation she had just held.

From Silent Struggles by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens

And my wife saw ye andiron on ye table.

From The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 4 by Various

Joey stared at the andiron with its tell-tale stain.

From The Prophetic Camera by John McGreevey



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