hearthless

English

Etymology

hearth +‎ -less

Adjective

hearthless (not comparable)

1. Without a hearth.
   • 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:

     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,— […]

   • 2005, Axel von Starck, Alfred Mühlbauer, Carl Kramer, Handbook of thermoprocessing technologies, page 407:

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

2. (figuratively, by extension) Without a home.
   • 1906, Henry Watterson, The compromises of life, page 343:

     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."