hearthful

The amount a fireplace can hold.

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.

A quantity (of something) contained within a fireplace.

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.

A quantity (of something) sitting on a hearth outside a fireplace.

famished after a baconless dinner and a snack of cold weak tea and heavy bread, miserably shod, and with nothing to look forward to in the evening but a hearthful of wet clothes steaming before an inadequate wood fire, source of light as well as heat.

And if gunning over an intelligent handsome setter enriches my sport, certainly a hearthful of them on a winter evening or speckled faces peering out of our station wagon are things to value.

A homeful; enough to fill a cosy domestic situation.

Again he begins to weave his spell around Antonia, whispering in her ear that it was foolish of her to have given father and lover the pledge she has; so huge a sacrifice is not to be expected of one with her talent, her beauty, her charm; what can domestic felicity, even with a hearthful of brats thrown in, weigh in the scales against the applause of the adoring multitude?

And to whoever came there, to a house that was much too small to hold its contents, the result of moving from bigger dwellings, there was always a hearthful of homely welcome, with no humbug, whenever he or she entered, and the offer of a meal too almost before they sat, except to the immediate neighbours, who were as much at home there as ourselves.

Characterized by warmth, comfort, and a sense of belonging; cosy.

Thus for some people in settings such as squats and the street, lower on the physical continuum than the others, their experiences may be hearthful: the psychological, social and symbolical constituents of home.

The spot in Hillsdale County chosen by Mr. Jones was sightly and hearthful, watered by the St. Joseph River, and thickly wooded.