[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

hearth \hearth\ haumrth, n. oe. harthe, herth, herthe, as.
   heoreth; akin to d. haard, heerd, sw. haumrd, g. herd;
   cf. goth. ha'uri 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.
      1913 webster

            there was a fire on the hearth burning before him.
                                                  --jer. xxxvi.
                                                  22.
      1913 webster

            where fires thou find'st unraked and hearths
            unswept.
            there pinch the maids as blue as bilberry. --shak.
      1913 webster

   2. the house itself, as the abode of comfort to its inmates
      and of hospitality to strangers; fireside.
      1913 webster

            household talk and phrases of the hearth.
                                                  --tennyson.

   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;
      as, an open-hearth smelting furnace.
      1913 webster +pjc

   hearth ends metal., fragments of lead ore ejected from
      the furnace by the blast.

   hearth money, hearth penny as. heorethpening, 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.
      1913 webster

            he had been importuned by the common people to
            relieve them from the . . . burden of the hearth
            money.                                --macaulay.
      1913 webster
see also:
hearth ends hearth money hearth penny chimney money 

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