fire iron
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English
Noun
fire iron (plural fire irons)
- Any of a set of metal tools kept beside the fireplace, used to keep the fire burning as required. The set usually consists of fire tongs, a poker, a spade, and a brush for the ashes.
- (rail transport) One of a set of tools kept on a steam locomotive for a similar purpose.
- 1944 March and April, E. S. Waterhouse, “Two Footplate Rides on "Merchant Navy" Locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, page 88:
- No. 21C9 was in need of a boiler washout and though she was carefully and assiduously fired and use made of the fire-irons during the run, it was not possible to maintain steam, which often fell as low as 210 lb.
- 1961 February, ""Balmore"", “Driving and firing modern French steam locomotives - Part One”, in Trains Illustrated, page 112:
- There was no need to use the fire-irons after we pulled out of Calais, for the fire was well burnt through and came to life at once.
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- “fire iron”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
