Meaning

A flat stone used to form a hearth..

Definitions by Sense

1. A flat stone used to form a hearth.
2. (figuratively, by extension) The fireside, home life.
3. A soft kind of stone used to whiten doorsteps, scour floors, etc.
4. (transitive) To scour, as a floor, with hearthstone.

Example Sentences

I took a seat at the end of the hearthstone opposite that towards which my landlord advanced […].

I am going to my own hearth-stone, / Bosomed in yon green hills alone,

The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land

The denominational relations of a household will shape the future political positions of the young men growing around the hearth-stone, just as they did those of their fathers

Lastly, there is the hearth-stone barrow, piled up with hearth-stone, Bath-brick and lumps of whiting

We've a woman come in twice a week, to scrub, and red-brick, and hearthstone, and black-lead, and the rest we manage ourselves.

Word Forms

• hearthstones
• hearth-stone
• hearthstoning
• hearthstoned

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