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ironmongery

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i·ron·mon·ger·y  (rn-mngg-r, -mng-)
n. pl. i·ron·mon·ger·ies Chiefly British
1. Ironware.
2. The shop or business of an ironmonger.
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Noun1.ironmongeryironmongery - the merchandise that is sold in an ironmonger's shop
merchandise, product, ware - commodities offered for sale; "good business depends on having good merchandise"; "that store offers a variety of products"
Britain, Great Britain, U.K., UK, United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland - a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; `Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom
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There's only one good that has ever come to me, out of this cursed old rusty mechanical trade, and that's this piece of ironmongery, upon my soul
Barnaby Rudge - A Tale Of The Riots Of 'Eighty by Dickens, Charles View in context
So does the ironmongery - candle-boxes, and gridirons, and that sort of necessaries - because those things tell, and mount up.
David Copperfield by Dickens, Charles View in context
I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade.
A Christmas Carol by Dickens, Charles View in context
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