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Meanings of ironmonger in English

Catalan
ferreteria

A store selling hardware.

ferreteria
Catalan
ferreter

Someone who sells hardware.

ferreter
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Examples for "hardware store"
Examples for "hardware store"
1
One suitable for the purpose can be purchased in any hardware store.
Mission Furniture: How to Make It, Part 3
2
He disappears into the hardware store; maybe he's phoning the state cops.
Rabbit, run
3
He also worked in the family hardware store in Roscrea, Co Tipperary.
The Irish Times
4
After losing the family fortune, Mr. Forester had opened a hardware store.
The new yorker
5
I called for a hatchet from the hardware store of Mr. Case.
The Use and Need of the Life of Carry A. Nation
1
In an ironmonger's shop
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, April 14, 1920
2
Why there's a little locksmith's and ironmonger's shop to let in that street just off the far end of Lambeth Walk.
Thyrza
3
Rows of house door keys are seen at an ironmonger's shop in central London March 1, 2011.
Reuters
4
In spite of the ironmonger's shop in Havoc's mouth, I had not the faintest control over him, so I said to Peter:
Margot Asquith, an Autobiography - Two Volumes in One
5
This is not the experience of the man who entered an ironmonger's shop and asked for a couple of feet of it.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, February 26, 1919

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Usage of ironmonger in English
1
A devout Baptist, Newcomen worked as an ironmonger, fabricating and selling metal parts.
Wired
2
Napper Tandy was an ironmonger, Wolfe Tone was the son of a coach-maker.
The Constitutional History of England from 1760 to 1860
3
Any ironmonger will cut one to size for a few pence.
The Healthy Life Cook Book, 2d ed.
4
Reserve that tone for your new friend, Mister Farmerson, the ironmonger.
The Diary of a Nobody
5
I dropped almost senseless at the door of an ironmonger's shop.
Colonel Chabert
6
John Williams, the martyr of Erromanga, was originally apprenticed to a furnishing ironmonger.
Self Help; with Illustrations of Conduct and Perseverance
7
He supported her to the door of Allman's shop, the ironmonger's.
The Old Wives' Tale
8
She was an ironmonger's daughter, and her marriage was thought a great match.
Vanity Fair
9
The ironmonger had gold watches and antique articles among the lumber in his cellar.
Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 04
10
He carried on business in the town as an ironmonger.
A Yacht Voyage Round England
11
Alone, the ironmonger Humble Measure returned to studying the card.
Orb Sceptre Throne
12
An ironmonger added a scraper and an old lady ran up with a door-mat.
Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens
13
The ironmonger is sold out of stepladders and is rapidly running out of flasks.
The Irish Times
14
The symbol was such as could be obtained at any ironmonger's: an alarm clock.
Clayhanger
15
There was the ironmonger's, and there was the shoe shop.
Shadows in the twilight
16
Thomas Newcomen, a Baptist ironmonger, blacksmith, and locksmith, supplied iron tools to mine workers.
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