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What does hearth mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word hearth? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. A brick, stone or cement floor to a fireplace or oven.
  2. An open recess in a wall at the base of a chimney where a fire may be built.
  3. The lowest part of a metallurgical furnace.
  4. (figuratively) Home or family life.
  5. (paganism) A household or group following the modern pagan faith of Heathenry.
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The blue flames of all four burners on the stainless steel hearth are flicked to high.
These wanderers still travel to the ruins of the old house and try to start up the old hearth fire.
In the open hearth process an oxygen lance is arranged to blow large volumes of oxygen onto the molten metal in the hearth.
Among the nomads, men sat on kilims and carpets around a hearth outside the front of the tent to visit, drink coffee and tea, and eat.
Torches were then lighted from the bonfire and carried to each home to relight the hearth fire.
Two armchairs stood by each side of the hearth and I sat down in one of them to get warm.

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