hearthless — ozdic

Collocations

2

VERB + HEARTHLESS

reason

HEARTHLESS + NOUN

furnace, pusher-type, walls, wanderer

Definitions

adj

1

Without a hearth.

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,— […]

For this reason, a hearthless pusher-type furnace has been developed.

2

Without 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."

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01

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

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02

For this reason, a hearthless pusher-type furnace has been developed.

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03

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."

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