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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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In the open hearth process an oxygen lance is arranged to blow large volumes of oxygen onto the molten metal in the hearth.
Another of the Travis felines, a white angora, won its way into the family hearth by adopting Glanville's boat.
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.
The low, irregular ceiling is crisscrossed with beams made from ships' timbers and a log fire crackles merrily in the hearth.
The blue flames of all four burners on the stainless steel hearth are flicked to high.
The room was quite dark, for the dying embers on the hearth provided only a faint radiance.

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