ironmongery

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   tools, metal fittings, and other hardware sold for use in homes, gardens, or buildings

   The old shop stocked hinges, nails, locks, and other ironmongery.

2. 2
   noun

   the trade or business of selling hardware

   She inherited the family's ironmongery business.

Formed in the early eighteenth century from ironmonger + -y. Ironmonger combines iron with monger, an old word for a dealer or trader that descends from Old English mangere. The word can denote either the goods or the business that sells them.

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