ironmongery
[ ahy-ern-mong-guh-ree, -muhng- ]
noun,plural i·ron·mon·ger·ies.British.
a hardware store or business.
the stock of a hardware store; hardware.
Origin of ironmongery
1First 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 ValdsSome of the chiefs, enjoining silence, made short harangues, and Cook began the usual distribution of ironmongery and hardware.
Celebrated Travels and Travellers | Jules VerneSo does the ironmongery —candle-boxes, and gridirons, and that sort of necessaries—because those things tell, and mount up.
The Personal History of David Copperfield | Charles DickensIt would purchase muskets and powder and ball, cloth and ironmongery and strong liquors from the white men of the settlements.
Blackbeard: Buccaneer | Ralph D. PaineAlso, apart from his connection with the Brethren, proprietor of a very paying little ironmongery business.
Egholm and his God | Johannes Buchholtz
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