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Hearthstone - What does it mean?

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hearthstone

English

Alternative forms

* hearth-stone

Noun

(en noun)
  • A flat stone used to form a hearth.
  • By extension: The fireside, home life.
  • *1846 , , "Good-Bye", line 15
    • I am going to my own hearth-stone , / Bosomed in yon green hills alone,
  • *1861 ,
    • The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone , all over this broad land
  • *1876 , , English Radical Leaders , page 55
    • The denominational relations of a household will shape the future political positions of the young men growing around the hearth-stone , just as they did those of their fathers
  • A soft kind of stone used to whiten door-steps, scour floors, etc.
  • *1861 , , London labour and the London Poor , vol. 1, page 29
    • Lastly, there is the hearth-stone barrow, piled up with hearth-stone, Bath-brick and lumps of whiting

    Verb

    (hearthston)
  • To scour, as a floor, with hearthstone.
  • *1876 , Hallberger's Illustrated Magazine , page 202
    • 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.

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