Lexicographical Neighbors of Endirons
Literary usage of Endirons
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of the Bible: Dealing with Its Language, Literature, and by Andrew Bruce Davidson, James Hastings, Samuel Rolles Driver, John Alexander Selbie, Henry Barclay Swete (1908)
"or endirons, or the two hearth-stones '). The spelling of leu is 'andirons.'
The chang-c into 'end- irons' was ..."
2. A Memoir of the Rev. John Keble by John Taylor Coleridge (1869)
"... or endirons, or the two hearth-stones.') The mystical meaning, then, of being
between these portions would be ' being under a covenant by Sacrifice, ..."
3. The Authorized Edition of the English Bible (1611): Its Subsequent Reprints by Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener (1884)
"... 1638, 1769 and the moderns have endirons; end irons of 1744, 1762 is a bad guess.
The Bishops' margin has Ire-sets. Another word, used but once, ..."
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