ironmongery

[ ahy-ern-mong-guh-ree, -muhng- ]

noun,plural i·ron·mon·ger·ies.British.
  1. a hardware store or business.

  2. the stock of a hardware store; hardware.

Origin of ironmongery

1
First recorded in 1705–15; ironmonger + -y3

Words Nearby ironmongery

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How to use ironmongery in a sentence

  • Don Mateo's right hand in all these festivities was Severino, of the ironmongery shop.

    The Fourth Estate, vol. 2 | Armando Palacio Valds
  • Some of the chiefs, enjoining silence, made short harangues, and Cook began the usual distribution of ironmongery and hardware.

  • So does the ironmongery —candle-boxes, and gridirons, and that sort of necessaries—because those things tell, and mount up.

  • It would purchase muskets and powder and ball, cloth and ironmongery and strong liquors from the white men of the settlements.

    Blackbeard: Buccaneer | Ralph D. Paine
  • Also, apart from his connection with the Brethren, proprietor of a very paying little ironmongery business.

    Egholm and his God | Johannes Buchholtz