fireiron

In order that it might not be disturbed by some dusting housemaid, I myself made it fast with three or four tin-tacks which I remember I drove through the velvet stuff into the panelling, using a fireiron as a hammer.

The Ivory Child Henry Rider Haggard 1890

The long-legged veteran, who had been besieging the fireiron, as before related, now took down his cumbrous length, and rearing aloft his tall form, walked up to the advertisement and very deliberately spit a full discharge of tobacco-juice on it.

Uncle Tom's cabin, or Life among the lowly 1852