hearth : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: hearth	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for hearth
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
hearth n an open recess in a wall at the base of a chimney where a fire can be built; "the fireplace was so large you could walk inside it"; "he laid a fire in the hearth and lit it"; "the hearth was black with the charcoal of many fires" Synonym(s): fireplace, hearth, open fireplace home symbolized as a part of the fireplace; "driven from hearth and home"; "fighting in defense of their firesides" Synonym(s): hearth, fireside an area near a fireplace (usually paved and extending out into a room); "they sat on the hearth and warmed themselves before the fire" Synonym(s): hearth, fireside
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Hearth \Hearth\, n. [OE. harthe, herth, herthe, AS. heor[?]; akin to D. haard, heerd, Sw. h[84]rd, G. herd; cf. Goth. ha[a3]ri a coal, Icel. hyrr embers, and L. cremare to burn.] 1. The pavement or floor of brick, stone, or metal in a chimney, on which a fire is made; the floor of a fireplace; also, a corresponding part of a stove. There was a fire on the hearth burning before him. --Jer. xxxvi. 22. Where fires thou find'st unraked and hearths unswept. There pinch the maids as blue as bilberry. --Shak. 2. The house itself, as the abode of comfort to its inmates and of hospitality to strangers; fireside. 3. (Metal. & Manuf.) The floor of a furnace, on which the material to be heated lies, or the lowest part of a melting furnace, into which the melted material settles. {Hearth ends} (Metal.), fragments of lead ore ejected from the furnace by the blast. {Hearth money}, {Hearth penny} [AS. heor[edh]pening], a tax formerly laid in England on hearths, each hearth (in all houses paying the church and poor rates) being taxed at two shillings; -- called also {chimney money}, etc. He had been importuned by the common people to relieve them from the . . . burden of the hearth money. --Macaulay.
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Hearth Heb. ah (Jer. 36:22, 23; R.V., "brazier"), meaning a large pot like a brazier, a portable furnace in which fire was kept in the king's winter apartment. Heb. kiyor (Zech. 12:6; R.V., "pan"), a fire-pan. Heb. moqed (Ps. 102:3; R.V., "fire-brand"), properly a fagot. Heb. yaqud (Isa. 30:14), a burning mass on a hearth.