Andiron

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  • noun. One of a pair of metal supports used for holding up logs in a fireplace.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. One of a pair of metallic stands used to support wood burned on an open hearth.
    • 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.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A utensil for supporting wood when burning in a fireplace, one being placed on each side; a firedog; as, a pair of andirons.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. metal supports for logs in a fireplace
    • Word Usage
    "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."
    Hypernym
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    support  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    clotheshorse  cocke  cookstove  cookware  dasher  
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    chain  coal tongs  crane  crook  damper  
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