ironmongeringadj.
/ˈʌɪənˌmʌŋɡ(ə)rɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈaɪ(ə)rnˌmɑŋɡ(ə)rɪŋ/, /ˈaɪ(ə)rnˌməŋɡ(ə)rɪŋ/ That works or manufactures iron; that deals in ironware.
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1836 A. S. Mackenzie Spain Revisited II. xvii. 287 The forges and hammers of an iron-mongering population.
1863 N. Hawthorne Our Old Home I. 227 These hillocks of waste and effete mineral always disfigure the neighbourhood of ironmongering towns.
1879 Macmillan's Mag. Nov. 61/2 [She] came straight to London from the Hudson Kirkmans yesterday—the ironmongering Kirkmans up in the north.
1906 Outlook 25 Aug. 981/1 In seafaring Liverpool, cotton-spinning Manchester, metal-working Sheffield, cloth-weaving Leeds, and iron-mongering Birmingham, are England's new universities established.
1964 Technol. & Culture 5 257 The most paternalistic and welfare-minded of the great ironmongering families of the age.
2010 S. Oden Lion of Cairo 174 Their iron-mongering brethren forged the swords that would protect them.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2013; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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