hearthful
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "All furnaces were built with two sumps, wells or forehearths in which the molten aluminum accumulated, one hearthful or about two metric tons at a time."
- "They sawed and hacked and somehow managed to acquire hearthfuls of fuel to see them through."
- "Another bard, Rhys Goch Eryri, between the years 1385 and 1448, describes the dragon's colour as similar to a hearthful of fire in a smithy, a significant comparison for such a fire is not composed of lambent flames, but of a golden-red glow."
- "Shortly before Thanksgiving, oil prices and expectations rising apace, I had accumulated a healthy hearthful of ashes which I painstakingly distributed on my lawn."
- "Give me refuge, o hearthsful of fire"
- "I hugged the fat, ceiling-high contraption — I would have preferred a hearthful of roaring fire, but I was here, where rooms are heated by stoves — then set to kneading some warmth back into my cheeks and palms."