Found 3 items, similar to Hearth.
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: hearth pendiangan
English → English (WordNet) Definition: hearth hearth n 1: 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” [syn: fireplace, open fireplace] 2: home symbolized as a part of the fireplace; “driven from hearth and home”; “fighting in defense of their firesides” [syn: fireside] 3: an area near a fireplace (usually paved and extending out into a room); “they sat on the hearth and warmed themselves before the fire” [syn: fireside]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Hearth Hearth \Hearth\ (h[aum]rth), n. [OE. harthe, herth, herthe, AS. heor[eth]; akin to D. haard, heerd, Sw. h["a]rd, G. herd; cf. Goth. ha['u]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. [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. heor[eth]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. [1913 Webster] He had been importuned by the common people to relieve them from the . . . burden of the hearth money. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]