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firedog

firedog is the alternative form of fire dog.

Meaning of fire dog

Noun

fire dog (plural fire dogs)

  1. 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
    Synonyms:
    andiron

Forms of firedog

pluralfiredogs

Questions about firedog

What is firedog the alternative form of?
Firedog is the alternative form of fire dog.

Words near firedog in the dictionary

  1. firedamper
  2. firedampers
  3. firedamps
  4. firedevil
  5. firedevils
  6. firedog
  7. firedogs
  8. firedoor
  9. firedoors
  10. firedragon
  11. firedragons

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Adapted from Wiktionary: firedog (page history and authors); fire dog (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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