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A brick, stone or cement floor to a fireplace or oven.

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An open recess in a wall at the base of a chimney where a fire may be built.

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The lowest part of a metallurgical furnace.

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A brazier, chafing dish, or firebox.

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Home or family life.

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A household or group in some forms of the modern pagan faith Heathenry.

Examples of hearths in a Sentence

Their reputation as raiders is sufficiently shown in the division of the tribe into two clans, the Hazari-khoas or "eaters of a thousand hearths," and the Kapah-chors or "thieves that lurk in the cotton fields."

A partition divided it into two equal parts, one of which had a doorway opening to the south, and close by it an extensive refuse-heap. In the middle of the other part was a stone-paved hearth, with remains of three former hearths underneath.

Taran stepped into a cavernous bedchamber lit by low burning hearths and scented by the white flowers sitting in each window.

Leo Africanus, writing early in the 16th century, gives a favourable picture of the "great city" of Tunis, which had a flourishing manufacture of fine cloth, a prosperous colony of Christian traders, and, including the suburbs, nine or ten thousand hearths; but he speaks also of the decay of once flourishing provincial towns, and especially of agriculture, the once powerful Church.

The M`Dougall furnace is turret-shaped, and consists of a series of circular hearths, on which the ore is agitated by rakes attached to revolving arms and made to fall from hearth to hearth.

The apparatus for drying ore and salt varies greatly, drying-floors, dry-kilns and continuous mechanical reverberatory furnaces with stationary and revolving hearths being used.

At Gezer a pre-Semitic place of worship was found in which three such hearths stood together, and drained into a cave which may reasonably be supposed to have been regarded as the residence of the divinity.

These circular hearths persisted into the Canaanite period, but were ultimately superseded by the Semitic developments.

At the Restoration the Irish parliament granted an hereditary revenue to the king, an excise for the maintenance of the army, a subsidy of tonnage and poundage for the navy, and a tax on hearths in lieu of feudal burdens.

There were two types of hearths found in smelting mills.

The cafeteria where she led him looked medieval at best, a stone hall with lines of crude picnic tables and dark hearths.

Most or all of the platforms would have been used for charcoal hearths.

Its disappearance coincides with that of great hearths, which were replaced by cast-iron stoves.

The colder winter climate of mainland Greece dictated the use of fixed hearths, whereas in the Cretan palaces these seem to have been of a portable kind, and the different usage in this respect again reacted on the respective forms of the principal hall or " Megaron."

Terra-cotta statuettes of the god seem to have been placed before the hearths of Athenian houses.

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