Definition of "hearth-brush" [hearth-brush]

• A small brush used to sweep up ashes, etc., on a hearth. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Marian found her standing in the passage, with a duster in one hand and a hearth-brush in the other."
• "Today she overwhelmed me with shrill reproaches, and abased me to the level of a hearth-brush."
• "She seemed willing to do her best; though she thrust the hearth-brush into the grates in mistake for the poker, and mal-appropriated several other articles of her craft: but I retired, confiding in her energy for a resting-place against my return."