hearthstone

Etymology

Definitions

1. 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. 2

   The fireside, home life.

   • I am going to my own hearth-stone, / Bosomed in yon green hills alone,
   • 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
   • 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
3. 3

   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
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   1. 4

      To scour, as a floor, with hearthstone.

      • 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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