andiron
Example Sentences
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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
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 Weekley, Ernest
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
Chilian Leverett sat for a long while with the letter in his hand, until the log broke in the middle and one end fell over the andiron.
From A Little Girl in Old Salem by Douglas, Amanda Minnie
