andiron

Example Sentences

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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

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

A mug of cider stood near one andiron; leaning against the other was a flat stone,—the Squire's "Simon."

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864 by Various

I saw ye andiron leap into ye pott and dance, and leap out, and again leap in, and leap on a table and there abide.

From The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 4 by Various