furnace vs hearthside

furnace

noun
  • A device that provides heat for a building; a space heater. 

  • A place or time of punishment, affliction, or great trial; severe experience or discipline. 

  • Any area that is excessively hot. 

  • An industrial heating device, e.g. for smelting metal or baking ceramics. 

verb
  • To heat in a furnace. 

  • To exhale like a furnace. 

hearthside

noun
  • The area around the fireplace in the living-room of a family house. 

adj
  • Used to identify something as normally being in the area of the fireplace. 

  • Pertaining to an activity normal to the household, usually associated with the living-room, whether or not it has a real fireplace. 

How often have the words furnace and hearthside occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )