hearthstone

noun

1. A flat stone used to form a hearth.

   “I took a seat at the end of the hearthstone opposite that towards which my landlord advanced […].”

2. (broadly, figuratively)The fireside, home life.

   “I am going to my own hearth-stone, / Bosomed in yon green hills alone,”

   “The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land”

   “The denominational relations of a household will shape the future political positions of the young men growing around the hearth-stone, just as they did those of their fathers”

3. A soft kind of stone used to whiten doorsteps, scour floors, etc.

   “Lastly, there is the hearth-stone barrow, piled up with hearth-stone, Bath-brick and lumps of whiting”

verb

1. (transitive)To scour, as a floor, with hearthstone.

   “We've a woman come in twice a week, to scrub, and red-brick, and hearthstone, and black-lead, and the rest we manage ourselves.”