Meanings
- not comparableWithout a hearth.
For this reason, a hearthless pusher-type furnace has been developed.
2005, Axel von Starck, Alfred Mühlbauer, Carl Kramer, Handbook of thermoprocessing technologies, page 4071 more example
There was a desolate village in a wood, Whose bloom-inwoven leaves now scattering fed The hungry storm; it was a place of blood, A heap of hearthless walls;—the flames were dead Within those dwellings now,—the life had fled From all those corpses now,— […]
1817 December, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Revolt of Islam. […]”, in [Mary] Shelley, editor, The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon […], published 1839, →OCLC, page 279 - broadlyfigurativelynot comparableWithout a home.
It was not a singer of the fireside, but a hearthless wanderer, who put in all hearts the Anglo-Saxon's simple "Home, Sweet Home."
1906, Henry Watterson, The compromises of life, page 343
Origin
Translations
Ancient Greek ἀνέστιος
- ἀνέστιος (anéstios)without a hearth
Greek ανέστιος
- ανέστιος (anéstios)without a hearth
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