Definitions for hearth

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Spelling: [hahrth]

IPA: /hɑrθ/

Hearth is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 95 anagrams from letters in hearth (aehhrt).

Definitions for hearth

noun

1. the floor of a fireplace, usually of stone, brick, etc., often extending a short distance into a room.
2. home; fireside:
3. Metallurgy. the lower part of a blast furnace, cupola, etc., in which the molten metal collects and from which it is tapped out. the part of an open hearth, reverberatory furnace, etc., upon which the charge is placed and melted down or refined.
4. a brazier or chafing dish for burning charcoal.

Origin of hearth

before 900; Middle English herth(e), Old English he(o)rth; cognate with German Herd, Dutch haard

Examples for hearth

Such Rambo-like defenses of home and hearth do not happen in real life, unless the home also happens to contain a meth lab.

Or that a Starbucks beverage comes straight from the hearth?

How it came, how it was passed from hearth to hearth, defied our penetration.

Seizing the lamp from the hearth, she hastened to the window that overlooked the street-door.

As far as I know, this experience was shared by everyone else around the McArdle hearth.

At the breakfast-table, comfortably near the hearth, sat Horace Milbrey.

He certainly had warmed a snake on his hearth, and how was he to be rid of it?

I am love with the classics and hearth is my hometown favorite.

Frederico leads the others around the hearth as they gently wash their faces with cupfuls of warm liquid.

The hearth bore a uniform appearance, and did not seem to have been tampered with.