Meaning

The amount a fireplace can hold..

Definitions by Sense

1. The amount a fireplace can hold.
2. A quantity (of something) contained within a fireplace.
3. A quantity (of something) sitting on a hearth outside a fireplace.
4. A homeful; enough to fill a cosy domestic situation.
5. Characterized by warmth, comfort, and a sense of belonging; cosy.

Example Sentences

All furnaces were built with two sumps, wells or forehearths in which the molten aluminum accumulated, one hearthful or about two metric tons at a time.

They sawed and hacked and somehow managed to acquire hearthfuls of fuel to see them through.

Another bard, Rhys Goch Eryri, between the years 1385 and 1448, describes the dragon's colour as similar to a hearthful of fire in a smithy, a significant comparison for such a fire is not composed of lambent flames, but of a golden-red glow.

Shortly before Thanksgiving, oil prices and expectations rising apace, I had accumulated a healthy hearthful of ashes which I painstakingly distributed on my lawn.

Give me refuge, o hearthsful of fire

I hugged the fat, ceiling-high contraption — I would have preferred a hearthful of roaring fire, but I was here, where rooms are heated by stoves — then set to kneading some warmth back into my cheeks and palms.

A hearthful of flames flung warmth into this room, cheerily bouncing their glow off polished walnut furniture and silver-gilt.

famished after a baconless dinner and a snack of cold weak tea and heavy bread, miserably shod, and with nothing to look forward to in the evening but a hearthful of wet clothes steaming before an inadequate wood fire, source of light as well as heat.

Word Forms

• hearthfuls
• hearthsful
• more hearthful
• most hearthful

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When Should You Use Hearthful?

Use hearthful when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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