andironn.
A utensil, consisting of an iron bar sustained horizontally at one end by an upright pillar or support usually ornamented or artistically shaped, at the other by a short foot; a pair of these, also called ‘fire-dogs,’ being placed, one at each side of the hearth or fire-place, with the ornamental ends to the front, to support burning wood. Sometimes ‘in a kitchen fire-place the upright support carried a rack in front for the spit to turn in’ (Wedgwood).
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > that which or one who heats > [noun] > a device for heating or warming > devices for heating buildings, rooms, etc. > hearth or fireplace > andiron or fire-dog
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a1300 W. de Biblesworth in Wright Voc. 171 Forgé de fers, aundyrnes [v.r. in Rel. Ant. ii. 84 Furchez de ferz, aund hirnes].
c1314 Guy Warw. 250 An aundiren he kept in his honden.
c1400 Metr. Voc. in Wright Voc. 176 Stipes ut andēna (glossed a aundyre) sustentus deperit ardens. [The reading of the MS. is clear.]
1408 Durham Acc. Roll in Eng. Hist. Rev. XIV. 518 In iii towirens, iii porres alias naundirens.
1440 Promp. Parv. Awnderne [v.r. awndyryn, 1499 awndyrn], Andena, ipoporgium.
1442 in Reg. Test. Ebor. I. 56 a, Duo ferra nominata aundeiryns pro supportatione foci in aula.
1447 Par. Accts. Ludlow in Shropshire Word-bk. Item, a pare of andirons.
1480 Caxton tr. Ovid Metamorphosis xii. xii, Threwe..an hevy andryon agenst his Enemyes.
1483 Act 1 Rich. III xii. §1 Andyrons Cobbardes Tongges Fireforks Gredyrons &c.
1493 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 82 A speete wt an aundeiren.
?a1500 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 770/2 Hee andena, a handyryn.
1519 W. Horman Vulgaria xvi. f. 154v, I lacke a fyre pan, and andyars to bere vp the fuel.
1522 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 115 A payer of handerns.
1590 in Midland Counties Hist. Collector II. 31 Item..ij landyrons one fire shovell.
1591 J. Florio Second Frutes 159 Set that firebrand vpon the handiron.
1609 Acc. Feoffees of Rotherham 8 For mending of a handyron in the chamber, 8d.
a1616 Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) ii. iv. 88 Her Andirons..were two winking Cupids Of Siluer. View more context for this quotation
1616 Acc. Feoffees of Rotherham 8 For mendinge the Scowll house landyron, 8d.
1626 Bacon Sylva Sylvarum §178 If you strike..an Andiron of brass, at the top, it maketh a more treble sound.
1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine iii. 390 Like brazen Andirons in great mens chimnies.
1731 H. Fielding Grub-St. Opera i. xi. 18 The very hand-irons..have not more brass in them than thy forehead.
1789 H. L. Thrale Observ. Journey France I. 93 Ashes raked out from between the andirons.
1826 Scott Woodstock I. iii. 81 The andirons, or dogs..for retaining the blazing fire-wood on the hearth.
1878 H. B. Stowe Poganuc People xiii. 111 The social sit-down in front of the andirons.
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