Sekirov Dictionary

hearthful

noun 4
adjective 1
forms 4

noun4

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The amount a fireplace can hold.
- 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. — 1947
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A quantity (of something) contained within a fireplace.
- Shortly before Thanksgiving, oil prices and expectations rising apace, I had accumulated a healthy hearthful of ashes which I painstakingly distributed on my lawn. — 1980
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A quantity (of something) sitting on a hearth outside a fireplace.
- 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. — 1971
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A homeful; enough to fill a cosy domestic situation.
- 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? — 1963

adjective1

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Characterized by warmth, comfort, and a sense of belonging; cosy.
- The spot in Hillsdale County chosen by Mr. Jones was sightly and hearthful, watered by the St. Joseph River, and thickly wooded. — 2003

forms

hearthfuls · hearthsful · more hearthful · most hearthful

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