Crossword clues for ironmongery
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ironmongery \I"ron*mon`ger*y\, n.
Hardware; a general name for all articles made of iron.
--Gwilt.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context archaic British uncountable English) Tools and other hardware that can be bought in an ironmonger's shop. 2 (context British uncountable English) The trade of an ironmonger. 3 (context British countable English) An ironmonger's shop.
WordNet
n. a store selling hardware; "in England they call a hardware store and ironmongery" [syn: hardware store]
Wikipedia
Ironmongery originally referred, first, to the manufacture of iron goods and, second, to the place of sale of such items for domestic rather than industrial use. In both contexts, the term has expanded to include items made of steel, aluminium, brass, or other metals, as well as plastics.
The term ironmonger as a supplier of consumer goods is still widely used in Great Britain, the US equivalent being " hardware store". Many architectural ironmongery items (for example, door handles, locks, hinges, etc.) are also manufactured for wholesale and commercial use in offices and other buildings.
Usage examples of "ironmongery".
Furze was the largest ironmonger in Eastthorpe, and sold not only ironmongery, but ploughs and all kinds of agricultural implements.
Store into Departments, of Ironmongery, Corsetry, Modes and others After their Kind, and Created Humans to fill them with All Things saying, Yea, All Things Are Here.
The escape door was locked, as nearly all such doors are from the inside, and the lock itself was of the double-action type, but no match for the sophisticated load of ironmongery I carried about with me.
The fact that they were cross-cut saws and other ironmongery made no difference.
John Thomas, of the delft, ironmongery, sponge, and umbrella shop, at the corner of Church Street, in Gylingden, were announced by the fatigued servant.
Knucklebones found the ironmongery by the smell of rust, lampblack, and grease.
Louise thought this meant ironmongery but when he brought her purchases round, he laughed merrily at this assumption and said no, it was computer hardware.
It was easiest to accept my explanation that the ironmongery was heirlooms and that my poor friend, besides being stunted, was deaf-mute.
Joe, was - sent Joe to pay a small account for ironmongery, which had been due for some weeks.
British dream of the next definitive war seems to have involved a torrent of this ironmongery tearing triumphantly across Europe.
I stood in the doorway being searched for concealed ironmongery by Tye while she strolled and blew cigarette smoke towards the vast expanse of windows.
We were in a street filled with sound and ironmongery, scrolled iron balconies and music bands milling away in every doorway.
Shanghai: a step unit done up in Beaux-Arts ironmongery, a rowing machine cleverly fashioned of writhing sea-serpents and hard-bodied nereids, a rack of free weights supported by four callipygious caryatids-not chunky Greeks but modern women, one of each major racial group, each tricep, gluteus, latissimus, sartorius, and rectus abdominus casting its own highlight.
I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade.
Knucklebones found the ironmongery by the smell of rust, lampblack, and grease.