▪ I. † landiron1 Obs.
Also 5 laundyren, 6 lawndyrne, laund(e iron, 6–7 landyron, 7 -iyron.
[An alteration (influenced by iron, as in andiron) of landier a., F. landier = def. article l' + OF. andier andiron.]
An andiron, fire-dog.
| 1459–60 Durham Acc. Rolls (Surtees) 89 It. ij cobertez alias laundyrens, ij rostyngyrens. 1511 Nottingham Rec. No. 1384. 42 Unum lawndyrne, pretii xviijd. 1541 in Lanc. Wills & Invent. I. 128, ij. old great laund irons, vs. 1590 Inv. Linc. in Midl. Co. Hist. Coll. II. 31 Item..ij landyrons, one fire shovell. 1640 R. Brathwait Boulster Lect. 304 Her Pots, Pipkings, Kettles, Land-irons with all her other Utensiles. 1685 Inv. Ch. Wetherill of Keadby 15 May (N. W. Linc. Gloss.), One iyron potte and one land iyron with spitts and racks and crookes. |
▪ II. † landiron2 Obs.
[? f. land n.1 + iron n.]
A kind of iron.
| 1428 in Surtees Misc. (1888) 2 Sent hym with hys awen cariage iij⊇ & di. of landyren. Ibid. 3 He had mykyll with in him of dross and landiren. |