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.

From Time Magazine Archive

She falls, strikes her head against a fraternity andiron.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

Ashes, as fresh as if the fire had just been extinguished, were found in the chimney-place, with pieces of an andiron, iron pot, and other articles.

From Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast by Drake, Samuel Adams