| 单词 | hardware house |
| 释义 | > as lemmashardware house (a) In sense 1, as hardware dealer, hardware department, hardware house, etc. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > trader > traders or dealers in specific articles > [noun] > in household goods hardwareman1419 glass-man1597 hardware dealer1703 Chinaman1733 broker1818 Chinawoman1837 1703 J. Browne Mod. Pract. Physick Vindicated 183 There is scarce a Family that are Hard-ware Mechanicks (as they call 'em,) that is Cutlers, Scith-Smiths, Button-makers, and the like. 1724 J. Swift Let. to Shop-keepers of Ireland (new ed.) 3 Mr. Woods..a Hard Ware Dealer, procured a Patent..to Coin fourscore and ten thousand pounds in Copper. 1787 World & Fashionable Advertiser 6 Nov. (advt.) A Young Man, twenty-seven years of age, who..has served a regular apprenticeship to a Hardware-house in the Country. 1798 F. Higgins Let. 1 May in T. Bartlett Revolutionary Dublin (2004) 235 Peter Martin of Thomas St., ironmonger and hardware merchant. 1848 J. S. Mill Princ. Polit. Econ. I. i. iv. §1. 68 Suppose..that our capitalist is a hardware manufacturer. 1861 A. Trollope Orley Farm (1862) I. vi. 40 The other was a little spare man in the hardware line. 1874 W. M. Baines Narr. Edward Crewe 172 Those ugly dull wedges, sometimes to be seen in a hardware-shop in England, and labelled American axes. 1898 N.E.D. at Hardware Hardware dealer, factory, merchant, trade. 1930 Nature Mag. Mar. 170/1 Collecting in plaster..is quite satisfactory... Just get some plaster of paris at your druggist's or hardware dealer. 1972 J. Merrill Toothpaste Millionaire x. 40 ‘Grommets,’ Vince said... ‘They're a hardware item... You use them on tents or boats.’ 2009 D. Lebovitz Sweet Life in Paris 237 Her husband..loved hardware stores and insisted on checking out the hardware department. < as lemmas |
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