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ˈhearth-stead
[f. stead place.]
The place of a hearth; fireside; hence, = homestead.
c1475in Horstmann Altengl. Legenden (1881) p. cxxi. note, Þe herthstede þat has bene all wynter browne & blake with þe smok. 1585T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. ii. x. 44 The village containeth about two or three hundred hearthsteds. 1834Southey Doctor xxxiv. II. 17 The most sacred spot upon earth to him was his father's hearth-stead. 1851Borrow Lavengro I. 180 Northmen..flocked thither across the sea to found hearthsteads on its fertile soil. |