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andiron

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

Nicholas knocked his pipe against the andiron, and rose, to lay it carefully on the shelf.

From Tiverton Tales by Brown, Alice

Joey stared at the andiron with its tell-tale stain.

From The Prophetic Camera by McGreevey, John

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