andiron

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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

She falls, strikes her head against a fraternity andiron.

From Time Magazine Archive

Tom got out his chiefest jewel, a brass knob from the top of an andiron, and passed it around her so that she could see it, and said: "Please, Becky, won't you take it?"

From The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Part 2. by Twain, Mark

One early 17th-century andiron recovered is attractively decorated with a cherub’s head in relief.

From New Discoveries at Jamestown Site of the First Successful English Settlement in America by Cotter, John L.

I saw ye andiron leap into ye pott and dance, and leap out, and again leap in, and leap on a table and there abide.

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