See also: firedog
English
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[edit]Noun
[edit]- (archaeology) Bronze Age artifact used in worshipping either bulls or the moon, or as a holder for wooden logs to be used in a fire altar.
- (chiefly US) Either of a pair of horizontal metal supports for holding logs in a fireplace.
- Synonym: andiron
- 1841 February–November, Charles Dickens, “Barnaby Rudge. Chapter 10.”, in Master Humphrey’s Clock, volume II, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC:
- He was […] none of your free-and-easy companions, who would scrape their boots upon the firedogs in the common room, […]
Translations
[edit]horizontal metal support for holding logs — see andiron