IRONMONGERY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ironmongery mean? 

• IRONMONGERY (noun)
  The noun IRONMONGERY has 1 sense:

1. the merchandise that is sold in an ironmonger's shop

  Familiarity information: IRONMONGERY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IRONMONGERY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The merchandise that is sold in an ironmonger's shop

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("ironmongery" is a kind of...):

merchandise; product; ware (commodities offered for sale)

Domain region:

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)

 Context examples 

“It's not a great deal towards the furnishing,” said Traddles, “but it's something. The table-cloths, and pillow-cases, and articles of that kind, are what discourage me most, Copperfield. So does the ironmongery—candle-boxes, and gridirons, and that sort of necessaries—because those things tell, and mount up. However, “wait and hope!”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)