Meaning of hearthful | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The amount a fireplace can hold.
2. A quantity (of something) contained within a fireplace.
3. A quantity (of something) sitting on a hearth outside a fireplace.
4. A homeful; enough to fill a cosy domestic situation.

Examples

“All furnaces were built with two sumps, wells or forehearths in which the molten aluminum accumulated, one hearthful or about two metric tons at a time.”

“They sawed and hacked and somehow managed to acquire hearthfuls of fuel to see them through.”

“Another bard, Rhys Goch Eryri, between the years 1385 and 1448, describes the dragon's colour as similar to a hearthful of fire in a smithy, a significant comparison for such a fire is not composed of lambent flames, but of a golden-red glow.”

“Shortly before Thanksgiving, oil prices and expectations rising apace, I had accumulated a healthy hearthful of ashes which I painstakingly distributed on my lawn.”

“Give me refuge, o hearthsful of fire”

“I hugged the fat, ceiling-high contraption — I would have preferred a hearthful of roaring fire, but I was here, where rooms are heated by stoves — then set to kneading some warmth back into my cheeks and palms.”

“A hearthful of flames flung warmth into this room, cheerily bouncing their glow off polished walnut furniture and silver-gilt.”

“famished after a baconless dinner and a snack of cold weak tea and heavy bread, miserably shod, and with nothing to look forward to in the evening but a hearthful of wet clothes steaming before an inadequate wood fire, source of light as well as heat.”

“And if gunning over an intelligent handsome setter enriches my sport, certainly a hearthful of them on a winter evening or speckled faces peering out of our station wagon are things to value.”

“Of the company, one was on the ground insensible; another was in a yet more deplorable condition; another was nodding over a hearthful of battered pots, pieces of pipes, and oozings of ale.”

“Again he begins to weave his spell around Antonia, whispering in her ear that it was foolish of her to have given father and lover the pledge she has; so huge a sacrifice is not to be expected of one with her talent, her beauty, her charm; what can domestic felicity, even with a hearthful of brats thrown in, weigh in the scales against the applause of the adoring multitude?”

“And to whoever came there, to a house that was much too small to hold its contents, the result of moving from bigger dwellings, there was always a hearthful of homely welcome, with no humbug, whenever he or she entered, and the offer of a meal too almost before they sat, except to the immediate neighbours, who were as much at home there as ourselves.”

“I did not leave you when I was young and how can I quit now that we are the parents of a hearthful of children?”

“If you want your wife to respect you for your work, you can demonstrate your respect for her work by heaping on her a hearthful of appreciation.”

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