Definition of "fire-grate" [fire-grate]

• The grate to hold the fuel in common use in domestic fireplaces and in many forms of heaters and furnaces. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Thus the measure of a poker is not its power to add lustre to a brass-finished fire-grate, but to poke and rake a fire."
• "At one end of this ghastly apartment was a large fire-grate, over the top of which were stretched some transverse iron bars, half devoured with rust."
• "He sat from morning to night looking at the empty fire-grate, and hardly ventured to speak of the ordeal that he had to undergo."