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hearthstone

UK /ˈhɑːθstəʊn/US /ˈhɑɹθstoʊn/

noun 3
verb 1
forms 3

noun3

•
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 […]. — 1847
•
(figurative) The fireside, home life.
- I am going to my own hearth-stone, / Bosomed in yon green hills alone, — 1846
•
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 — 1861

verb1

•
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. — 1876

forms

hearthstoned · hearthstoning · hearthstones

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