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• fire dog

語源

fire +‎ dog

名詞

firedog (複数形 firedogs)

1. (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.
2. (chiefly US) Either of a pair of horizontal metal supports for holding logs in a fireplace.
   • 1841, Charles Dickens, chapter 10, in Barnaby Rudge‎^[1]:

     none of your free-and-easy companions, who would scrape their boots upon the firedogs in the common room

同意語

• (support for holding logs): andiron

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• firedog

名詞

fire dog (複数形 fire dogs)

1. (archaeology) 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.
2. (chiefly US) Either of a pair of horizontal metal supports for holding logs in a fireplace.

   Synonym: andiron

   • 1841 February–November, Charles Dickens, “Barnaby Rudge”, in Master Humphrey’s Clock, volume II, London: Chapman & Hall, […], OCLC 633494058, chapter 10:

     He was […] none of your free-and-easy companions, who would scrape their boots upon the firedogs in the common room, […]