dog-irons

They had big brass dog-irons that could hold up a saw-log.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 2003

” For our old friends were friends indeed, evincing the most delicate attentions, and making up to us the deficiency in our supplies, from a carpet, to keep the wind from penetrating our open cabin floors, to dog-irons, or a dutch oven, and the like useful articles, besides many rare sweetmeats from their own choice kitchens.

A Biographical Sketch of the Life and Character of Joseph Charless In a Series of Letters to his Grandchildren Charlotte Taylor Blow Charless

The system of coffee furnaces is universal in Djowf and Djebel Shomer, but in Nejed itself, and indeed in whatever other yet more distant regions of Arabia I visited to the south and east, the furnace is replaced by an open fireplace hollowed in the ground floor, with a raised stone border, and dog-irons for the fuel, and so forth, like what may be yet seen in

All About Coffee 1909

There was a fire in the monumental fireplace, and as he entered, a log was just breaking in the middle and spluttering, across the tall, richly wrought French dog-irons.

The Letter of the Contract Basil King 1893

My ol 'shin-bones stan' up thess like a pair o 'dog-irons.

Sonny, a Christmas Guest Ruth McEnery Stuart 1886

They had big brass dog-irons that could hold up a saw-log.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 1884

They had big brass dog-irons that could hold up a saw-log.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain 1872

They had big brass dog-irons that could hold up a saw-log.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapters 16 to 20 Mark Twain 1872

What are usually called dog-irons on the hearth are called brand-irons, having to support the brand or burning log.

Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies Richard Jefferies 1867

[Footnote 21: Wooden blocks for extending the stays.] [Footnote 22: A speek was a large nail; a pintle, then as now, a rudder-pin.] [Footnote 23: A kind of harpoon.] [Footnote 24: Hook for sturgeons; dog-irons were probably fire-dogs.] [Footnote 25: Deep-sea lead (for sounding).]

Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period Illustrative Documents 1898