Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One of a pair of metal supports used for holding up logs in a fireplace.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of a pair of metallic stands used to support wood burned on an open hearth.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A utensil for supporting wood when burning in a fireplace, one being placed on each side; a firedog.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A utensil for supporting wood when burning in a
fireplace , one being placed on each side; afiredog ; as, a pair of andirons.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun metal supports for logs in a fireplace
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Under his government industry flourished,and the mines and smokestacks of the Ruhr supplied his régime with the coal and the steel which, even more than blood andiron, underwrote the prosperity of the Reich.
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Under his government industry flourished,and the mines and smokestacks of the Ruhr supplied his régime with the coal and the steel which, even more than blood andiron, underwrote the prosperity of the Reich.
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Under his government industry flourished,and the mines and smokestacks of the Ruhr supplied his régime with the coal and the steel which, even more than blood andiron, underwrote the prosperity of the Reich.
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Under his government industry flourished,and the mines and smokestacks of the Ruhr supplied his régime with the coal and the steel which, even more than blood andiron, underwrote the prosperity of the Reich.
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Under his government industry flourished,and the mines and smokestacks of the Ruhr supplied his régime with the coal and the steel which, even more than blood andiron, underwrote the prosperity of the Reich.
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She watched him commune with the stone for a few moments, then examined the andiron more closely.
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She tried tugging on a tall, ornate sphinx-shaped andiron.
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Grace was bearing down on the left andiron, shoving it toward the floor.
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Then from the kitchen appeared Hristo with what looked like part of an andiron set with narrow pincers made for grabbing thin kindling, glowing bright orange.
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Then from the kitchen appeared Hristo with what looked like part of an andiron set with narrow pincers made for grabbing thin kindling, glowing bright orange.
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yarb commented on the word andiron
Andirons of brass, nearly six feet high, flanked the hearthstone.
- Frank Norris, The Octopus, bk 2, ch. 8
August 29, 2008