andiron
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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
Sir Charles, drawing his rapier, sprang to his side, the wounded Captain started up from amidst his pillows and the divine snatched a brass andiron from the fireplace.
From Prisoners of Hope A Tale of Colonial Virginia by Mary Johnston
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 Henry Hobart Nichols
The derivation of Fr. landier, andiron, is unknown, but the iron of the English word is due to folk-etymology.
From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Ernest Weekley
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