Out with the Zetka and also the kitchen fire shovel.

I handed her the poker, keeping the heavy iron fire shovel for myself.

Then, with the other hand, I placed a small fire shovel, heated red-hot for this purpose, under his balls.

The fire shovel suggested itself to her and she crept down to get it while Marilla was busy in the pantry.

Other fires irons include the fire rake (not to be confused with the firefighter's tool), fire tongs, and fire shovel.

A narrow firing shovel holds around six pounds of coal so the hard-working firebox gets through around 50lbs of coal a minute.

Dawson allegedly made "grossly improper proposals" to the Mormon widow Albina Merrill Williams, who responded by thrashing him with a fire shovel.

The chairs crowded together talking, the table lifting its white muslin skirts to show its pink sateen petticoat, the fire shovel and tongs dancing a fandango by themselves.

In September 1859-60, Thomas was arrested and tried for the murder of Catherine during a drunken binge in which he hit her across the head many times with a fire shovel.

'He hath unpacked his carriage and made it run a mile or two up and down in River's great room, making it carry the fire shovel, tongs and poker.

Servants and other domestics scurried in and out, carrying roast and grilling trays, dripping pans, fire shovels, brass pots, pewter vessels, and baskets full of herbs.

Kelly had stricken him with a fire shovel, Dan Kelly had beaten him and Ned Kelly had shot him and wounded him.

Meringues make their first appearance under their familiar name in Massialot, who is also credited with Crème brûlée, in which the sugar topping was melted and burnt with a red-hot fire shovel.

Fitzpatrick returned to Benalla Police Station claiming that Ellen Kelly had struck him with a fire shovel, Dan Kelly had beaten him, and Ned Kelly had attempted to shoot him.

He told his superiors that while attempting to take Dan in for questioning, Ellen Kelly struck him over the head with a fire shovel, denting his helmet, and Ned Kelly fired at him from close range and wounded him.

Two bronze jars and an iron cuspidor stood by the walls where lizards waited motionless, while a brass poker, tongs and fire shovel, cast in Birmingham, mounted on a stand and long bereft of any hearth, had pride of place in a niche.

So far, driver Sam Webster was pleased with his young mate's performance and had noted with approval how he used his firing shovel to spread the coal systematically round the firebox and his ability to fire up through the firehole door trap without having to open the door.

Potentially fascinating anecdotes are skimmed over, or not mentioned at all – such as the disconcerting little tale in which Emily once put four 'superfluous kittens’ on a fire shovel and, while the family was at church, 'softly dropped them’ into a jar of pickling brine, eventually served up to a visiting judge.