1. Noun
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.
2. Noun
The house itself, as the abode of comfort to its inmates and of hospitality to strangers; fireside.
3. Noun
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.
4. Noun
home symbolized as a part of the fireplace; "driven from hearth and home"; "fighting in defense of their firesides"
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