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Hearth
//hɑːθ// noun
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Noun
- 1 The place in a home where a fire is or was traditionally kept for home heating and for cooking, usually constituted by at least a hearthstone and often enclosed to varying degrees by any combination of reredos, fireplace, oven, smoke hood, or chimney.
"For by the hearth the children sit Cold in that atmosphere of Death, And scarce endure to draw the breath, Or like to noiseless phantoms flit: […]"
- 2 an open recess in a wall at the base of a chimney where a fire can be built wordnet
- 3 A hearthstone, either as standalone or as the floor of an enclosed fireplace or oven.
"cooking on an open hearth"
- 4 home symbolized as a part of the fireplace wordnet
- 5 A fireplace: an open recess in a wall at the base of a chimney where a fire may be built.
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- 6 an area near a fireplace (usually paved and extending out into a room) wordnet
- 7 The lowest part of a metallurgical furnace.
- 8 A brazier, chafing dish, or firebox.
- 9 Home or family life. figuratively
"To put it simply, he seems to me to be starting out to harm the city, from its very hearth, by setting out to wrong you."
- 10 A household or group in some forms of the modern pagan faith Heathenry. Germanic
"Asatru is practised all over Northern Europe and also in North America. Like Druidry, it is organized into bodies with sub-groups, the hearths."
Etymology
From Middle English herth, herthe, from Old English heorþ, from Proto-West Germanic *herþ, from Proto-Germanic *herþaz, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *kerh₃- (“heat; fire”). Cognate with West Frisian hurd, Dutch haard, German Herd, Swedish härd.
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