fire dog

See also: firedog

English

Fire dogs from the 11th to 9th c. BC

fire dog (plural fire dogs)

(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.
(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, chapter 10:
  He was […] none of your free-and-easy companions, who would scrape their boots upon the firedogs in the common room, […]

Bronze Age artifact

horizontal metal support for holding logs — see andiron

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