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hearth

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English heorĂ° "hearth, fire," in transferred use "house, home," from West Germanic *hertho "burning place" (cognates: Old Saxon and Old Frisian herth , Middle Dutch hert , Dutch haard , German Herd "floor, ground, fireplace"), from PIE *kerta- , from ...

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In historic and modern usage, a hearth is a brick - or stone -lined fireplace , with or without an oven , used for heating and originally also used for cooking food. For centuries, the hearth was such an integral part of a home , usually its central and ...

Usage examples of hearth.

I sat by her, and she leaned back beside me, eminently available, looking soft and sexy and smelling just great, her eyes sparkling invitingly in the glow of the flames aflicker in the hearth.

Several humans and aliens fussed around on tables next to the hearth, preparing a meal.

Peat fires burned on raised stone hearths, creating a permanent haze, for like the hearth at Appleton, they were vented only through holes in the roof.

A brightly burning fire on the hearth gave off the scent of applewood and added to the atmosphere of light and warmth.

The woman, she noticed this, and she went to the cupboard and got a piece of warm ashcake and put it down on the hearth.

The woman, she notice this, and she went to the cupboard and got a piece of warm ashcake and put it down on the hearth.

Great significance is given in the Indian mythology to Agni, the god of fire, who burns the sacrifice in honor of the gods, who conveys the offerings and prayers of men to gods and their gifts to men, who gladdens the domestic hearth, lights up the darkness of night, drives away the evil spirits, the Ashuras and Rakshas, and purges of evil the souls of men.

Ayla was sewing the finishing beadwork onto the white leather tunic when she heard a commotion from the Fox Hearth.

Tramps or ex-soldiers passing through town had scattered trash through the rooms and built unconfined cook fires on the hearths, blackening the walls and scorching the ceilings.

She pointed to a brown leather chair to the side of an open fire which had a hob in front of it and an oven to the side, both brightly blackleaded, the hearth in front being whitewashed and framed by a brass fender.

A kitchen-rag stirred on its nail by the hearth, and the skin of his bodhran thrummed faintly as the draft passed by.

Alasdair paced back and forth before the hearth, the sound of his bootheels harsh on the marble floor.

Old work clothes, my writing tools, my bootjack, and other clutter and possessions burned in the hearth.

There was an iron spider, a sort of Dutch oven on legs, rusting at the side of the hearth, and after cleaning it and smearing it with butterfat, Kady set the biscuits to bake in the coals.

The Crane Hearth once had a high status, and there had been people in other Camps who had been willing to sponsor them, but there had always been dissenters, and there could be no dissenters.