Meaning of lamp-iron | Babel Free

Definitions

A piece of iron projecting upwards on which a lamp can be hung.

Examples

“One or two lines (the G.N.R. and the L.D. & E.C.R., for example) had two lamp-irons, one above the other, on the chimney, and the Midland and the North Staffordshire achieved the same effect by placing the secomd iron a short way down on the smokebox door.”

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