Definitions for hearths

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hearths hearth

Spelling: [hahrth]

IPA: /hɑrθ/

Hearths is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 217 anagrams from letters in hearths (aehhrst).

Definitions for hearths

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 hearths

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

Examples for hearths

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

Or that a Starbucks beverage comes straight from the hearth?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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