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plural hearthstones
A flat stone used to form a hearth. quotations examples
I took a seat at the end of the hearthstone opposite that towards which my landlord advanced […].
1847 December, Ellis Bell [pseudonym; Emily Brontë], chapter I, in Wuthering Heights: […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Thomas Cautley Newby, […]
(by extension) The fireside, home life. quotations examples
I am going to my own hearth-stone, / Bosomed in yon green hills alone,
1846, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Good-Bye, line 15
The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land
1861, Abraham Lincoln, First inaugural address
The denominational relations of a household will shape the future political positions of the young men growing around the hearth-stone, just as they did those of their fathers
1876, Richard J. Hinton, English Radical Leaders, page 55
A soft kind of stone used to whiten doorsteps, scour floors, etc. quotations examples
Lastly, there is the hearth-stone barrow, piled up with hearth-stone, Bath-brick and lumps of whiting
1861, Henry Mayhew, London labour and the London Poor, volume 1, page 29
third-person singular simple present hearthstones, present participle hearthstoning, simple past and past participle hearthstoned
(transitive) To scour, as a floor, with hearthstone. quotations examples
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