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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

The dog stretched himself before one andiron; the cat squat down before the other.

From The Portland Sketch Book by Various

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

"Let us return his fire, Hugh," said the person whom he addressed, composedly lifting the andiron.

From Fanshawe by Hawthorne, Nathaniel