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hearthrug
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Word definitions for hearthrug in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
hearthrug \hearthrug\ n. a rug spread out in front of a fireplace.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a rug spread out in front of a fireplace
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A rug placed in front of a fireplace, on the hearth.
Usage examples of hearthrug.
And now, as Gerald, almost free of the hearthrugs, broke his thumb-nail on the stiffest blade of his knife, a thick rustling and a sharp, heavy stumping sounded beyond the curtain.
For sometime already Mr Verloc's immobility by the side of the arm- chair resembled a state of collapsed coma - a sort of passive insensibility interrupted by slight convulsive starts, such as may be observed in the domestic dog having a nightmare on the hearthrug.
But that would only be a way of killing him, of bringing him a slow death among the bowls of warm gold top milk and the cushions and the hearthrugs, never again to know the fierce demented joy of seeing those fish come bursting out of that smashed crate and ravaging them, heady with rapture, scattering tails, scales and bones in that frenzied celebration of life renewed.