Definition of Hardware store

1. Noun. A store selling hardware. "In Great Britain they used to call a hardware store an ironmonger's shop"

Exact synonyms: Ironmonger, Ironmonger's Shop
Generic synonyms: Shop, Store

Definition of Hardware store

1. Noun. A merchant that sells tools, fasteners(,) and similar objects known collectively as hardware, as well as related sundries used in construction and repair. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hardware Store

hardstones
hardstyle
hardtack
hardtacks
hardtail
hardtails
hardtop
hardtops
hardware
hardware cloth
hardware cloths
hardware description language
hardware description languages
hardware disease
hardware error
hardware store (current term)
hardware stores
hardwareless
hardwareman
hardwaremen
hardwares
hardwearing
hardwire
hardwired
hardwires
hardwiring
hardwon
hardwood
hardwoods
hardworking

Literary usage of Hardware store

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. United States Supreme Court Reports by United States Supreme Court, Walter Malins Rose, Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, LEXIS Law Publishing (1901)
"The plaintiff also claims a debt said to be due from the jewelry stone to the hardware store. As all the debts due to the hardware store are obviously ..."

2. Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States by United States Supreme Court, William Cranch, Henry Wheaton, Richard Peters, Benjamin Chew Howard, Jeremiah Sullivan Black (1904)
"Lynn. whole business ; that the complainant should hold the merchandise in the hardware store, and the debts due to it, and the profits of the trade. ..."

3. The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value and by Abraham Clark Freeman (1901)
"On the thirteenth day of August, 1897, and for some years prior, dynamite was the usual part of the stock of a retail hardware store in southwestern Indiana ..."

4. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Common Pleas for the by Charles Patrick Daly (1872)
"The plaintiff testified that Peters told him that it was from the straw which he had brought from the defendant's hardware store, ..."

5. History of Colorado by Wilbur Fiske Stone (1918)
"There he became a clerk in a hardware store, continuing as such for five years and thoroughly learning the business. At the end of that period he was sent ..."

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