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andiron

[and-ahy-ern] / ˈændˌaɪ ərn /
NOUN
metal fireplace support
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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 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.

The dog stretched himself before one andiron; the cat squat down before the other.

From The Portland Sketch Book by Various

I stayed down stairs, and, to kind o' break up my sorrer, I chucked my head aginst the knob that was atop o' the andiron!

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867 by Various



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