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andiron

[and-ahy-ern] / ˈændˌaɪ ərn /
NOUN
metal fireplace support
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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

Carl knocked his pipe empty on the knob of an andiron, sank deeper into his chair, and began to speak slowly.

From The Plastic Age by Marks, Percy

On the charred lacework of the floor lay the leg of an old andiron with which Boaz Negro and his Angelina had set up housekeeping in that new house.

From O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920 by Various

An early 17th-century andiron in the Jamestown collection.

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



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