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hearth-stone

hearth-stone is the alternative form of hearthstone.

Meaning of hearthstone

Noun

hearthstone (plural hearthstones)

  1. 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 December, Ellis Bell [pseudonym; Emily Brontë], chapter I, in Wuthering Heights: […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Thomas Cautley Newby, […], →OCLC
  2. (broadly, figuratively) The fireside, home life.
    • I am going to my own hearth-stone, / Bosomed in yon green hills alone,1846, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Good-Bye, line 15
  3. 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 whiting1861, Henry Mayhew, London labour and the London Poor, volume 1, page 29

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Forms of hearth-stone

pluralhearth-stones

Questions about hearth-stone

What is hearth-stone the alternative form of?
Hearth-stone is the alternative form of hearthstone.

Words near hearth-stone in the dictionary

  1. hearth goddess
  2. hearth tax
  3. hearth taxes
  4. hearth-pennies
  5. hearth-penny
  6. hearth-stone
  7. hearth-stones
  8. hearthboard
  9. hearthboards
  10. hearthflame
  11. hearthflames

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