Hearthstone

Quick meaning: Hearthstone is a noun meaning A flat stone used to form a hearth.

Meaning

A flat stone used to form a hearth.

More Meanings

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

Example Sentences

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

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

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

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include hearthrug, flagstone, tablestone, slabstone, crucible, firegrate.

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