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Hardware store

noun

A store selling hardware. Synonyms: ironmonger, ironmonger's shop.

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"Hardware store" Quotes from Famous Books

... any mechanical taste, gratify it by a small kit of tools. The chests of cheap tools sold in the stores are not good for much. Select a few tools of good quality at a hardware store, and put a substantial work bench, such as carpenters use, in the play room. Never mind an ...

— Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 1, January 1886 • Various

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... Louise went to the "bank," which was a one-man affair situated in the rear of the hardware store, where a grating had been placed in one corner. There she found Mr. Watson, who was more a country broker than a banker, and throve by lending ...

— Mary Louise • Edith van Dyne (one of L. Frank Baum's pen names)

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... getting his bearings, and not from the store and the warehouse only. A good hardware store in a country town is a center of democracy for town and country alike. In what other place do farmers and artisans, country women and city women meet on so nearly equal terms? Not in the postoffice, nor in the ...

— John Wesley, Jr. - The Story of an Experiment • Dan B. Brummitt

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... Kemble. Anyway, he's more worth while being stuck on than Eugene Bankhead. He's just—just middle-class. His future is to work in Slocum-Hines's hardware store, like ...

— Star-Dust • Fannie Hurst

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Words linked to "Hardware store" : shop, store, ironmonger