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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

"That's strange," muttered Goody Brown, as she sat before the buried fire with a foot planted on each andiron, meditating on the conversation she had just held.

From Silent Struggles by Stephens, Ann S. (Ann Sophia)

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

From Fanshawe by Hawthorne, Nathaniel

The officials, seeing the marvellous work that he had put into it, sent the money to his shop; and he sent them the other andiron.

From Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 04 (of 10), Filippino Lippi to Domenico Puligo by De Vere, Gaston du C.



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