hearth

noun7

1. •
   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: […] — 1850
2. •
   A hearthstone, either as standalone or as the floor of an enclosed fireplace or oven.
3. •
   A fireplace: an open recess in a wall at the base of a chimney where a fire may be built.
4. •
   (figurative) 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. — 2010
5. •
   The lowest part of a metallurgical furnace.
6. •
   A brazier, chafing dish, or firebox.
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. — 1996