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Hearth vs Firebox - What's the difference?

hearth | firebox |

As nouns the difference between hearth and firebox

is that hearth is a brick, stone or cement floor to a fireplace or oven while firebox is the chamber of a steam engine, or a steam locomotive, in which the fuel is burned.

hearth

English

(wikipedia hearth)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A brick, stone or cement floor to a fireplace or oven.
  • *
  • *:When the flames at last began to flicker and subside, his lids fluttered, then drooped?; but he had lost all reckoning of time when he opened them again to find Miss Erroll in furs kneeling on the hearth and heaping kindling on the coals, and her pretty little Alsatian maid beside her, laying a log across the andirons.
  • 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 symbol for home or family life.
  • (lb) A household or group following the modern pagan faith of Heathenry.

    • Synonyms

    * (open recess at the base of a chimney where a fire may be built) fireplace

    Derived terms

    * hearth and home * hearthrug * hearthstone

    Anagrams

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    firebox

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia firebox) (fireboxes)
  • The chamber of a steam engine, or a steam locomotive, in which the fuel is burned.
  • The part of a fireplace where the fuel is burned.
  • (vulgar) A redheaded woman (by synecdoche, pars pro toto), or her red pubic hair, from .

    • See also

    * red cunt hair