andiron
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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.
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She falls, strikes her head against a fraternity andiron.
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I have wondered sometimes why the philosophers have not hit upon the andiron as a particularly fitting subject for pleasurable rumination.
From Making a Fireplace by Saylor, Henry H. (Henry Hodgman)
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
His interference, however, had nearly been productive of most unfortunate consequences; for a massive andiron, with round brazen head, whizzed past him, within a hair's-breadth of his ear.
From Fanshawe by Hawthorne, Nathaniel