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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
ironware
noun
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▪ The firm prospered markedly during the wars of 1689-1713 when Crowley was a major supplier of ironware to the navy.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ironware

Ironware \I"ron*ware`\, n. Articles made of iron, as household utensils, tools, and the like.

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ironware

n. Articles made of iron, as household utensils, tools, and the like.

WordNet
ironware

n. instrumentalities (tools or implements) made of metal [syn: hardware]

Usage examples of "ironware".

Past rocky farmland there arose tree-covered hills and a broad flat road, for in better times Dalekeva and Tinnainen had traded mutton and beef and hides and ironware for dried fish and silver and grain.

Nails and ironware hinges, locks, catches and other fitments would be locked up in the dry too.

It was a polite term for stealing because they came away with old brass handles, lights, wrought ironware, anything that took their fancy.

And, certainly, if any modern music seems to have the resisting power that beats back the centuries and the eons, it is his pieces of bronze and ironware and granite.

Down that direction are streets where you may purchase magical charms and amulets, salt, sweetmeats, furs, ironware, and weapons.

It need hardly be said that while French wine and silk prospered under this arrangement, other textiles and ironwares suffered an onslaught of cheap competition from the much more advanced British manufactures.

Gone were the soot and dust, leaving only the clean, soft, glowing patina of age over everything - the pewter on the mantel, the cherry case of the grandfather clock, the black ironware on the hearth, the walnut stock and silver inlays of the long rifle on the wall, the tin potbellies of the kerosene lamps, the warm, worn maple of the chairs.