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Hearth

Hearth Meaning & Definition
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.

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