ironware
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of ironware
late Middle English word dating back to 1400–50; see origin at iron, ware 1
Example Sentences
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Other local specialties include a form of traditional ironware known as Nambu Tekki, and apples.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2024
Unlike their competitors, the Darbys refused to make cannon during the Napoleonic wars and instead concentrated on domestic ironware, which proved a more lucrative industry than weapons.
From BBC ● Jan. 20, 2010
I also like to move the pendulum off center, and then I weld on all sorts of ironware to give it shape and expression.
From Time Magazine Archive
Its purpose is to employ artist-draughtsmen to visit collections of U. S. antiquities, make careful drawings of furniture, chests, ironware, pottery, costumes, etc., for distribution to schools and colleges.
From Time Magazine Archive
In a few minutes Dally led the party to a group of seven or eight tents which were surrounded by Scotch ploughs, cart-wheels, harrows, cooking utensils fire-arms, and various implements of husbandry and ironware.
From The Settler and the Savage by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
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