hearth /ˈhɑrθ/
爐床,?台,爐邊
Hearth n.
1. The pavement or floor of brick, stone, or metal in a chimney, on which a fire is made; the floor of a fireplace; also, a corresponding part of a stove.
There was a fire on the hearth burning before him. --Jer. xxxvi. 22.
Where fires thou find'st unraked and hearths unswept.
There pinch the maids as blue as bilberry. --Shak.
2. The house itself, as the abode of comfort to its inmates and of hospitality to strangers; fireside.
Household talk and phrases of the hearth. --Tennyson.
3. Metal. & Manuf. The floor of a furnace, on which the material to be heated lies, or the lowest part of a melting furnace, into which the melted material settles; as, an open-hearth smelting furnace.
Hearth ends Metal., fragments of lead ore ejected from the furnace by the blast.
Hearth money, Hearth penny
He had been importuned by the common people to relieve them from the . . . burden of the hearth money. --Macaulay.
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hearth
n 1: an open recess in a wall at the base of a chimney where a
fire can be built; "the fireplace was so large you could
walk inside it"; "he laid a fire in the hearth and lit
it"; "the hearth was black with the charcoal of many
fires" [syn: fireplace, open fireplace]
2: home symbolized as a part of the fireplace; "driven from
hearth and home"; "fighting in defense of their firesides"
[syn: fireside]
3: an area near a fireplace (usually paved and extending out
into a room); "they sat on the hearth and warmed
themselves before the fire" [syn: fireside]
Hearth
Heb. ah (Jer. 36:22, 23; R.V., "brazier"), meaning a large pot
like a brazier, a portable furnace in which fire was kept in the
king's winter apartment.
Heb. kiyor (Zech. 12:6; R.V., "pan"), a fire-pan.
Heb. moqed (Ps. 102:3; R.V., "fire-brand"), properly a fagot.
Heb. yaqud (Isa. 30:14), a burning mass on a hearth.