Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A hardware merchant.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A dealer in ironware or hardware.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A dealer in iron or hardware.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun chiefly UK a
retailer in iron goods andhardware
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who sells hardware
- noun a store selling hardware
Etymologies
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Examples
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He had made friends with the local blacksmith, who had partly graduated to the title of ironmonger and was much at his entrance on the lookout for fresh faces for idle chatter.
The Master Colm Tóibín 2004
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I fancy that the ironmonger was the only gainer by my smartness.
An Autobiography 2004
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I fancy that the ironmonger was the only gainer by my smartness.
Autobiography of Anthony Trollope Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882 1883
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I fancy that the ironmonger was the only gainer by my smartness.
Autobiography of Anthony Trollope Anthony Trollope 1848
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In 1764 he became pastor at Wisbech in Cambridgeshire, where in 1766 he married Grace Loftus, daughter of a recently deceased ironmonger.
william hazlitt | the man of letters « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2009
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I'll repeat the question I asked to ironmonger but haven't gotten a response to:
Tron Legacy’s Viral Campaign Begins with 27-City Scavenger Hunt | /Film 2010
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Not, at any rate, compared to the ironmonger who used a live shell to work his metal on, and finally (years of hammering later) blew himself up.
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This gritty, down-to-earth quality, in keeping with the industrialisation that was spreading through the US at the time, was enshrined in the school motto, Mens et Manus – Mind and Hand – as well as its logo, which showed a gowned scholar standing beside an ironmonger bearing a hammer and anvil.
The MIT factor: celebrating 150 years of maverick genius 2011
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In 1764 he became pastor at Wisbech in Cambridgeshire, where in 1766 he married Grace Loftus, daughter of a recently deceased ironmonger.
March « 2009 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2009
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Everything is done with this in mind -- the buildings are designed to blend into the scenery; walls in the 13 pure white bedrooms are partially made from iron (in homage to Michel Bras's father, who was an ironmonger, and also a reference to the famous knife factory in nearby Laguiole), and the bathrooms are made from granite, which is the local stone.
A Room With a Chew Jemima Sissons 2010
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