Wiktionary
n. A merchant that sells tools, fasteners(,) and similar objects known collectively as hardware, as well as related sundries used in construction and repair.
WordNet
n. a store selling hardware; "in England they call a hardware store and ironmongery" [syn: ironmongery]
Wikipedia
Hardware stores (in a number of countries, "shops"), sometimes known as DIY stores, sell household hardware for home improvement including: fasteners, building materials, hand tools, power tools, keys, locks, hinges, chains, plumbing supplies, electrical supplies, cleaning products, housewares, tools, utensils, paint, and lawn and garden products directly to consumers for use at home or for business. Many hardware stores have specialty departments unique to its region or its owner's interests. These departments include hunting and fishing supplies, plants and nursery products, marine and boating supplies, pet food and supplies, farm and ranch supplies including animal feed, swimming pool chemicals, homebrewing supplies and canning supplies. The five largest hardware retailers in the world are The Home Depot, Lowe's (both of the United States), Kingfisher of the United Kingdom, Obi of Germany, and Leroy Merlin of France.
Hardware store may refer to:
- Hardware store, a place to buy household hardware
- Hardware Store, a song in "Weird Al" Yankovic's Poodle Hat album
Usage examples of "hardware store".
I go to a good hardware store and head for the oiliest, dustiest corners.
If you look in a typical hardware store you may find smaller Milwaukee drills but not the Hole Hawg, which is too powerful and too expensive for homeowners.
When they'd left the hardware store, most folks had been at supper.
In the hardware store it had been easier to cast a large bubble of time around the whole store and remove the people that I wasn’.
Every day, she went to the little post office in the back of the hardware store, hoping there would be a letter.
He remembers my calling him from my car after I left Pleasants Hardware store, sometime between six-thirty and seven.
You can get a box of thousands for about a dollar at any hardware store.
Cans of spray paint that you can pick up at any hardware store work best.
LuEllen sat on the hardware store roof, her heels against the bottom rung of the ladder.
The road was even worse than he'd expected, and he had to put the Jeep into four-wheel drive to make it through a couple of spots, but he lucked out and there was a temporary respite from the rain, then he was on pavement and heading down Granite toward the hardware store.
So I went into the hardware store next door to my office and bought a micrometer to measure one (it’.