Associations to the word «Hearthstone»

Wiktionary

HEARTHSTONE, noun. A flat stone used to form a hearth.
HEARTHSTONE, noun. By extension: The fireside, home life.
HEARTHSTONE, noun. A soft kind of stone used to whiten door-steps, scour floors, etc.
HEARTHSTONE, verb. (transitive) To scour, as a floor, with hearthstone.

Dictionary definition

HEARTHSTONE, noun. A stone that forms a hearth.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats