fire dog
noun1
Archaeology, History, Human sciences, Sciences 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
US Either of a pair of horizontal metal supports for holding logs in a fireplace.
- He was[…] none of your free-and-easy companions, who would scrape their boots upon the firedogs in the common room, […]1841 February–November, Charles Dickens, “Barnaby Rudge. Chapter 10.”, in Master Humphrey’s Clock, volume II, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC: