forestick

How to use forestick in a sentence

• So you jist let me put on a good back-log and forestick, and build up a fire to tell stories by this evening.

  The Pearl of Orr's Island | Harriet Beecher Stowe

• There was a large forestick lying across the andirons, with a burning bed of coals below.

  Stuyvesant | Jacob Abbott

• Then you want a forestick on the andirons; and upon these build the fire of lighter stuff.

  Backlog Studies | Charles Dudley Warner

• Large stones were sometimes used instead of a backlog, and an iron bar was laid on the andirons in front of the forestick.

  Every Day Life in the Massachusetts Bay Colony | George Francis Dow

• Backlog and forestick were soon piled and kindlings laid, and the fire roared and snapped and crackled up the ample chimney.

  Poganuc People | Harriet Beecher Stowe