hearth
/ˈhɑɹθ/ noun C1- 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.
- A hearthstone, either as standalone or as the floor of an enclosed fireplace or oven. · cooking on an open hearth
- A fireplace: an open recess in a wall at the base of a chimney where a fire may be built.
- The lowest part of a metallurgical furnace.
- A brazier, chafing dish, or firebox.
- Home or family life.
- A household or group in some forms of the modern pagan faith Heathenry.
Plural hearths
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On opening the door, she perceived her sister and Bingley standing together over the hearth, as if engaged in earnest conversation; and had this led to no suspicion, the faces of both, as they hastily turned round and moved away from each other, would have told it all.
About the firelit hearth; and see
Then he pressed his face close to the window and watched the fire on the hearth.
When she crossed the log bridge over the brook the kitchen light of Green Gables winked her a friendly welcome back, and through the open door shone the hearth fire, sending out its warm red glow athwart the chilly autumn night.
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