hearth

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   The place in a home where a fire is or was traditionally kept for home heating and for…

   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. 2

   A hearthstone, either as standalone or as the floor of an enclosed fireplace or oven.

   • cooking on an open hearth
3. 3

   A fireplace

   A fireplace: an open recess in a wall at the base of a chimney where a fire may be built.

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   1. 4

      The lowest part of a metallurgical furnace.

   2. 5

      A brazier, chafing dish, or firebox.

   3. 6

      Home or family life.

      • 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.
   4. 7

      A household or group in some forms of the modern pagan faith Heathenry.

      • Asatru is practised all over Northern Europe and also in North America. Like Druidry, it is organized into bodies with sub-groups, the hearths.
      • Smaller localized groups known as 'hearths' meet regularly, and are comparable, in size and function, with a Wiccan 'Coven' or Druidic 'Grove'.
      • Neopagan groups take many forms, from Wiccan covens to Druid groves, from Heathen hearths to magical lodges[…]

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