Definition of hearthstone in English:
hearthstone
noun ˈhɑːθstəʊnˈhɑrθˌstoʊn
A flat stone forming a hearth or part of a hearth.
the hearthstone was of slate
Example sentencesExamples
- The fireplaces were stone with oak mantle-trees and bluestone hearthstones.
- However, as the size of this cutout is different in each drawing, it is plain that Adam himself was unsure about the final size of the hearthstone, and it is quite likely that the completed hearth did not require the carpet to be cut.
- All of this was underpinned with ample confidence in the friendly disposition of much of the population-presumably loyalist at heart, simply waiting to welcome British military leaders to their hearthstones.
- ‘In the olden days, if somebody was carving a gravestone and messed it up, they turned it over and used it as a hearthstone,’ Steve explained.
- The ‘Galchwen’ would be then used to chalk patterns on the hearthstone while the hearthstone was still wet.
- The Stone is our hearthstone - the coven has one, and many if not all of us have personal ones on our own altars too.
- Kieran went and sat on the hearthstones beside him to enjoy the last few moments of warmth and safety before they set out on their way again.
- John also regaled them with the story of the actual gravestone going missing for years and turning up as a hearthstone in a local dwelling house prior to President Nixon's visit to Timahoe in the early 1970s.
- He dumped the wood by the hearth, and frowned as crud from the logs spilled over the hearthstones, which had been tidy.
- The hearthstone protects the floor in front of the fire.
- This amalgam of cookery, theatre and mugging arose from a simple discovery by some unusually stupid Swiss peasant who left a large cheese on a hot hearthstone.
- I dashed a bit on a hearthstone and touched a glowing splint to it: an almost invisible blue flame sprang up.
- It was used by my grandmother and her mother before her as a means of chalking decorative patterns and designs upon the slate hearthstone and doorstep.
Definition of hearthstone in US English:
hearthstone
nounˈhärTHˌstōnˈhɑrθˌstoʊn
A flat stone forming a hearth or part of a hearth.
the hearthstone was of slate
Example sentencesExamples
- However, as the size of this cutout is different in each drawing, it is plain that Adam himself was unsure about the final size of the hearthstone, and it is quite likely that the completed hearth did not require the carpet to be cut.
- He dumped the wood by the hearth, and frowned as crud from the logs spilled over the hearthstones, which had been tidy.
- This amalgam of cookery, theatre and mugging arose from a simple discovery by some unusually stupid Swiss peasant who left a large cheese on a hot hearthstone.
- It was used by my grandmother and her mother before her as a means of chalking decorative patterns and designs upon the slate hearthstone and doorstep.
- The fireplaces were stone with oak mantle-trees and bluestone hearthstones.
- The Stone is our hearthstone - the coven has one, and many if not all of us have personal ones on our own altars too.
- All of this was underpinned with ample confidence in the friendly disposition of much of the population-presumably loyalist at heart, simply waiting to welcome British military leaders to their hearthstones.
- Kieran went and sat on the hearthstones beside him to enjoy the last few moments of warmth and safety before they set out on their way again.
- ‘In the olden days, if somebody was carving a gravestone and messed it up, they turned it over and used it as a hearthstone,’ Steve explained.
- The hearthstone protects the floor in front of the fire.
- I dashed a bit on a hearthstone and touched a glowing splint to it: an almost invisible blue flame sprang up.
- John also regaled them with the story of the actual gravestone going missing for years and turning up as a hearthstone in a local dwelling house prior to President Nixon's visit to Timahoe in the early 1970s.
- The ‘Galchwen’ would be then used to chalk patterns on the hearthstone while the hearthstone was still wet.