hearth

hearth has 6 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 6.

Definitions

• n.. 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.
• n.. The house itself, as the abode of comfort to its inmates and of hospitality to strangers; fireside.
• n.. 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.
• n.. an open recess in a wall at the base of a chimney where a fire can be built; "the fireplace was so large you could walk inside it"; "he laid a fire in the hearth and lit it"; "the hearth was black with the charcoal of many fires"
• n.. home symbolized as a part of the fireplace; "driven from hearth and home"; "fighting in defense of their firesides"
• n.. an area near a fireplace (usually paved and extending out into a room); "they sat on the hearth and warmed themselves before the fire"