What does lamp-iron mean?

lamp-iron

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.97 in modern English

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"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."

lamp-irons (plural)

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