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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

With one foot on top of the andiron and a hand resting on his knee, he stood gazing into the embers.

From The Wonderful Adventures of Nils by Howard, Velma Swanston

The illustration shows an interesting feature in the use of a primitive andiron or boss to support the cooking pot in position above the fire.

From A Study of Pueblo Architecture: Tusayan and Cibola Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 3-228 by Nichols, Henry Hobart

The daughter took her foot from the andiron; her eyes lighted up aggressively.

From The Grandissimes by Cable, George Washington



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