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Hearth

Hearth Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Hearth? [n] an open recess in a wall at the base of a chimney where a fire can be built; "the fireplace was so large you could walk inside it"; "he laid a fire in the hearth and lit it"; "the hearth was black with the charcoal of many fires" [n] home symbolized as a part of the fireplace (synecdoche); "driven from hearth and home"; "fighting in defense of their firesides" [n] an area near a fireplace (usually paved and extending out into a room; "they sat on the hearth and warmed themselves before the fire") Synonyms \| Synonyms for Hearth: fireplace \| fireside \| open fireplace Related Terms \| Find terms related to Hearth: ancestral halls \| brood \| children \| chimney \| chimney corner \| family \| family homestead \| fender \| fire screen \| fireboard \| fireguard \| fireplace \| fireside \| flue \| folks \| foyer \| get \| hearth and home \| hearthstone \| hob \| home \| home place \| home roof \| home sweet home \| homefolks \| homestead \| house \| household \| hub \| ingle \| inglenook \| ingleside \| issue \| menage \| offspring \| paternal roof \| people \| roof \| rooftree \| smokehole \| toft See Also \| abode \| area \| chimney \| chimneypiece \| country \| domicile \| dwelling \| dwelling house \| fire \| fire iron \| fireside \| habitation \| hearth \| hearthstone \| home \| mantel \| mantelpiece \| mantle \| mantlepiece \| niche \| recess \| water back Hearth In Webster's Dictionary \Hearth\, n. [OE. harthe, herth, herthe, AS. heor?; akin to D. haard, heerd, Sw. h["a]rd, G. herd; cf. Goth. ha['u]ri a coal, Icel. hyrr embers, and L. cremare to burn.] 1. The pavement or floor of brick, stone, or metal in a chimney, on which a fire is made; the floor of a fireplace; also, a corresponding part of a stove. There was a fire on the hearth burning before him. --Jer. xxxvi. 22. Where fires thou find'st unraked and hearths unswept. There pinch the maids as blue as bilberry. --Shak. 2. The house itself, as the abode of comfort to its inmates and of hospitality to strangers; fireside. 3. (Metal. & Manuf.) The floor of a furnace, on which the material to be heated lies, or the lowest part of a melting furnace, into which the melted material settles. {Hearth ends} (Metal.), fragments of lead ore ejected from the furnace by the blast. {Hearth money}, {Hearth penny} [AS. heor[eth]pening], a tax formerly laid in England on hearths, each hearth (in all houses paying the church and poor rates) being taxed at two shillings; -- called also {chimney money}, etc. He had been importuned by the common people to relieve them from the . . . burden of the hearth money. --Macaulay.

Hearth Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Hearth?

[n] an open recess in a wall at the base of a chimney where a fire can be built; "the fireplace was so large you could walk inside it"; "he laid a fire in the hearth and lit it"; "the hearth was black with the charcoal of many fires"
[n] home symbolized as a part of the fireplace (synecdoche); "driven from hearth and home"; "fighting in defense of their firesides"
[n] an area near a fireplace (usually paved and extending out into a room; "they sat on the hearth and warmed themselves before the fire")

Synonyms | Synonyms for Hearth: fireplace | fireside | open fireplace

Hearth In Webster's Dictionary

\Hearth\, n. [OE. harthe, herth, herthe, AS. heor?; akin
to D. haard, heerd, Sw. h["a]rd, G. herd; cf. Goth. ha['u]ri
a coal, Icel. hyrr embers, and L. cremare to burn.]
1. The pavement or floor of brick, stone, or metal in a
   chimney, on which a fire is made; the floor of a
   fireplace; also, a corresponding part of a stove.

         There was a fire on the hearth burning before him.
                                               --Jer. xxxvi.
                                               22.

         Where fires thou find'st unraked and hearths
         unswept. There pinch the maids as blue as bilberry.
                                               --Shak.

2. The house itself, as the abode of comfort to its inmates
   and of hospitality to strangers; fireside.

3. (Metal. & Manuf.) The floor of a furnace, on which the
   material to be heated lies, or the lowest part of a
   melting furnace, into which the melted material settles.

{Hearth ends} (Metal.), fragments of lead ore ejected from
   the furnace by the blast.

{Hearth money}, {Hearth penny} [AS. heor[eth]pening], a tax
   formerly laid in England on hearths, each hearth (in all
   houses paying the church and poor rates) being taxed at
   two shillings; -- called also {chimney money}, etc.

         He had been importuned by the common people to
         relieve them from the . . . burden of the hearth
         money.                                --Macaulay.

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