ironware

1) A term for a variety of smaller items made of iron.

1490 aliquod opus ferreum vocatum ironware, York. The OED has examples of ‘ironmongery’ which has much the same meaning from 1711 but it occurs alongside ‘ironware’ in York: 1490 in arte irenmangarie.

places York
dates 1490

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