ironwaren.
/ˈʌɪənwɛː/, U.S. /ˈaɪ(ə)rnˌwɛr/ As a mass noun: articles made of iron. Also in plural.
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society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with metal > [noun] > working with iron or smithing > product of
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > iron > [noun] > ironware
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a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xvi. xliv. 848 It is þe manere to tempere irenware with oyle lest þey ben hard.
1448 in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) I. 399 Iren steel Nailles and iren ware.
1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Surueyeng i. f. 1v The yron ware, as barres, bandes, hokes, boltes, staples or latches.
1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. Warres v. iii. 135 150 kinderkins and barrels to cary the small cordage, and small iron ware, and greasing for the axeltrees.
1675 C. Cotton Burlesque upon Burlesque 112 To get him [sc. Hephaestus] make their Iron-ware.
1735 S.-Carolina Gaz. 27 Sept. 3/1 To be Sold..: All sorts of iron ware by retail viz. iron potts.., dipsey and hand lines, marlin and house lines.
1771 J. Johnson Let. 6 Nov. (1979) 17 I would have sent the ironware from thence.
1843 Merchants' Mag. Aug. 112 In 1790, fire-arms, gunpowder, and ardent spirits, began to be desired; and soon after cottons, linens, broadcloths, iron-ware.
1862 J. Ruskin Unto this Last iv. 107 I very seriously inquire why ironware is produce, and silverware is not?
1905 Westm. Gaz. 23 Mar. 2/1 There are itinerant vendors of grass and bread, of ironware and firewood.
1958 Jrnl. Mod. Hist. 30 10/1 The prohibitive duties on ironwares.
2000 F. L. Holmes & T. H. Levere Instruments & Exper. Hist. Chem. p. ix We have a much higher proportion of brassware and ironware and a much lower proportion of glassware than that contained in eighteenth- or early nineteenth-century laboratories.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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