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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From hearth + stone.
Pronunciation
Noun
hearthstone (plural hearthstones)
- A flat stone used to form a hearth.
- (by extension) The fireside, home life.
1846, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Good-Bye, line 15:I am going to my own hearth-stone, / Bosomed in yon green hills alone,
1861, Abraham Lincoln, First inaugural address:The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land
1876, Richard J. Hinton, English Radical Leaders, page 55:The denominational relations of a household will shape the future political positions of the young men growing around the hearth-stone, just as they did those of their fathers
- A soft kind of stone used to whiten doorsteps, scour floors, etc.
1861, Henry Mayhew, London labour and the London Poor, volume 1, page 29:Lastly, there is the hearth-stone barrow, piled up with hearth-stone, Bath-brick and lumps of whiting
Translations
Verb
hearthstone (third-person singular simple present hearthstones, present participle hearthstoning, simple past and past participle hearthstoned)
- (transitive) To scour, as a floor, with hearthstone.
1876, Hallberger's Illustrated Magazine, page 202: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.
References
- “hearthstone”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1914), “hearthstone”, in The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, revised edition, volume II, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.