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hearthstoning

hearthstoning is the present participle and gerund of hearthstone.

Meaning of hearthstone

Verb

hearthstone (third-person singular simple present hearthstones, present participle hearthstoning, simple past and past participle hearthstoned)

  1. (transitive) To scour, as a floor, with hearthstone.
    • 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.1876, Hallberger's Illustrated Magazine, page 202

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Questions about hearthstoning

What is hearthstoning the present participle and gerund of?
Hearthstoning is the present participle and gerund of hearthstone.

Words near hearthstoning in the dictionary

  1. hearthstone
  2. hearthstoned
  3. Hearthstoner
  4. Hearthstoners
  5. hearthstones
  6. hearthstoning
  7. hearthward
  8. hearthwards
  9. heartical
  10. heartier
  11. hearties

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hearthstoning (page history and authors); hearthstone (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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