A shop selling tools, implements, and other items used in home life and activities such as gardening.
simply screw in some little hooks (you can get these from hardware shops)
Example sentencesExamples
- My family came from a farming background, but I used to run a hardware shop in a small town.
- I worked as an assistant in Molloy's hardware shop.
- The owner of the hardware shop had worked there for 45 years.
- Ants and insects including silverfish, woolly bears, and earwigs can be tackled with products from hardware shops.
- I use a little six-inch steel ruler I bought from the hardware shop for about $6.00.
- It had been delivered from a well-known hardware shop.
- It was the site of the massive foundry ironworks and hardware shop.
- They were laughing along the high street when a hardware shop caught her eye.
- Scrub rusty grates with wire wool and give cast-iron surrounds a gloss with grate polish, available from hardware shops.
- He soon added a bar to his grocery and then a hardware shop.