firedog
Noun
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Noun
firedog (plural firedogs)
- (archaeology) A Bronze Age artifact used in worshipping either bulls or the moon, or as a holder for wooden logs to be used in a fire altar.
- (chiefly US) Either of a pair of horizontal metal supports for holding logs in a fireplace
- 1841, Charles Dickens, Barnaby Rudge, chapter X
- none of your free-and-easy companions, who would scrape their boots on the firedogs in the common room
- 1841, Charles Dickens, Barnaby Rudge, chapter X
- (support for holding logs) andiron
- German: Mondhorn, Mondidol
- Italian: alare
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