Hearthstone
noun, verb ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A flat stone used to form a hearth.
"I took a seat at the end of the hearthstone opposite that towards which my landlord advanced […]."
- 2 a stone that forms a hearth wordnet
- 3 The fireside, home life. broadly
"I am going to my own hearth-stone, / Bosomed in yon green hills alone,"
- 4 A soft kind of stone used to whiten doorsteps, scour floors, etc.
"Lastly, there is the hearth-stone barrow, piled up with hearth-stone, Bath-brick and lumps of whiting"
- 1 To scour, as a floor, with hearthstone. transitive
"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."
Example
More examples"I took a seat at the end of the hearthstone opposite that towards which my landlord advanced […]."
Etymology
From hearth + stone.
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