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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.

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  1. 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.
  2. n. The house itself, as the abode of comfort to its inmates and of hospitality to strangers; fireside.
  3. 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.
  4. n. an open recess in a wall at the base of a chimney where a fire can be built
  5. n. home symbolized as a part of the fireplace
  6. n. an area near a fireplace (usually paved and extending out into a room)
  7. n:100 n. home symbolized as a part of the fireplace n. an area near a fireplace (usually paved and extending out into a room)