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Meaning of fire dog | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  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. Either of a pair of horizontal metal supports for holding logs in a fireplace.
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Equivalents

Deutsch Feuerhund Mondhorn Mondidol
Suomi tulikoira
日本語 丙戌
Polski kozioł

Examples

“He was[…] none of your free-and-easy companions, who would scrape their boots upon the firedogs in the common room, […]”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

fire dogs fire door Fire drill fire eating fire eel fire engine

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