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ironmonger
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. someone who sells hardware; "in England they call a hardwareman an ironmonger" [syn: hardwareman ]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
An ironmonger is one who deals in metal goods, including tools and hardware. Ironmonger may also refer to: Places Ironmonger Lane , street in the City of London Ironmonger Row Baths , public washhouse in Islington, London People Bert Ironmonger (1882–1971), ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ironmonger \I"ron*mon`ger\, n. A dealer in iron or hardware.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context chiefly British English) a retailer in iron goods and hardware
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ He'd come into Diss to pay a bill at Aldrich's the ironmongers. ▪ I have tried many ironmongers without success. ▪ Some of these demonstrators, by their own later accounts, armed themselves with razor-blades or with knuckle dusters ...
Usage examples of ironmonger.
Sweeting was not quite on a level with the coal dealer, who was a merchant, nor with the ironmonger, who repaired ploughs, and he was certainly below Mr.
Tradesmen called for custom, and I promised Farmerson, the ironmonger, to give him a turn if I wanted any nails or tools.
Giuliano had persuaded Pope Leo to give Leonardo a painting commission, but as Michelangelo was led through the workshops, including that of a German ironmonger who was to help Leonardo with his mechanical inventions, he saw that Leonardo had not yet begun to work at his art.
When he recovered he found that his ironmonger had destroyed his mechanical experiments.
The lover was backed up in his suit by the guardian of Constance, Monsieur Claude-Joseph Pillerault, at that time an ironmonger on the Quai de la Ferraille, whom the young man had finally discovered by devoting himself to the subterraneous spying which distinguishes a genuine love.
Pillerault, in concert with the Ragons, hired a little country-house at Sceaux, and the worthy old ironmonger silently prepared a joyous house-warming.
Furze was the largest ironmonger in Eastthorpe, and sold not only ironmongery, but ploughs and all kinds of agricultural implements.
Colston looked at the glove - for the ironmonger had left a mark on it - and that she wiped it with her pocket-handkerchief.
Is it likely that in a sleepy Midland town, such as Eastthorpe, knowing nothing but the common respectabilities of the middle of this century, the daughter of an ironmonger would fall in love with a married clergyman?
Cardew married a Berdoe, it will be remembered, and this Robert Berdoe was a wealthy wholesale ironmonger, who carried on business in Southwark.
Two months later, as Henri was going along the Rue des Martyrs, he saw Dufour, Ironmonger, over a door, and so he went in, and saw the stout lady sitting at the counter.
The tobacconist thought that he recognized him as the man who had that very morning passed a bad halffranc piece off on him, and the ironmonger declared that he was the murderer of Widow Malet, whom the police had been looking for for six months.
You write back pointing out that to have recourse to an ironmonger or a corn-dealer will only entail delay and disappointment, and suggest an application to a bookseller as the most hopeful thing you can think of.
Edge, ironmonger, pointed out that there was no parliamentary precedent for such a disposition of the report, and, further, that such action did not dispose of the baby.
Arle Steelsoul, of the Ironmongers, is leading the opposition to the Riverpullers.