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andiron Noun either of a pair of metal stands for supporting logs in a fireplace [Old French andier]
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| Tom got out his chiefest jewel, a brass knob from the top of an andiron, and passed it around her so that she could see it, and said: Phebe was there, polishing up the antique andirons so busily that she started when a voice cried out: "Smell that, taste this, and look at me The room was large, and sombre with dark woods and hangings like the hall; but through the west window the sun threw a long shaft of gold across the floor, gleamed dully on the tarnished brass andirons in the fireplace, and touched the nickel of the telephone on the great desk in the middle of the room. |
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