hearthless

Adjective

hearthless (not comparable)

1. Without a hearth.
   • There was a desolate village in a wood,
     Whose bloom-inwoven leaves now scattering fed
     The hungry storm; it was a place of blood,
     A heap of hearthless walls;—the flames were dead
     Within those dwellings now,—the life had fled
     From all those corpses now,— […]1817 December, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Revolt of Islam. […]”, in [Mary] Shelley, editor, The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon […], published 1839, →OCLC...
   • For this reason, a hearthless pusher-type furnace has been developed.2005, Axel von Starck, Alfred Mühlbauer, Carl Kramer, Handbook of thermoprocessing technologies, page 407
2. (broadly, figuratively) Without a home.
   • It was not a singer of the fireside, but a hearthless wanderer, who put in all hearts the Anglo-Saxon's simple "Home, Sweet Home."1906, Henry Watterson, The compromises of life, page 343