Meaning of Hearthstone | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A flat stone used to form a hearth.
2. The fireside, home life.
   broadly
3. A soft kind of stone used to whiten doorsteps, scour floors, etc.

Equivalents

Examples

“I took a seat at the end of the hearthstone opposite that towards which my landlord advanced […].”

“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”

“Lastly, there is the hearth-stone barrow, piled up with hearth-stone, Bath-brick and lumps of whiting”

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