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ferrary

ferrary noun: the art of ironworking.

Noun

ferrary (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete, rare) The art of ironworking.
    • And all my tools of heavenly ferrary.
      Thus from his anvil the huge monster rosec. 1610s, Homer (attributed), translated by George Chapman, The Crowne of all Homers Workes: Batrachomyomachia, or the Battaile of Frogs and Mise […], published 1624

Origin of ferrary

From Latin ferraria (“iron works”). See ferreous.

Questions about ferrary

What does ferrary mean?
Ferrary means the art of ironworking.
What part of speech is ferrary?
Ferrary is a noun.

Words near ferrary in the dictionary

  1. Ferrareses
  2. Ferrari
  3. Ferraris
  4. Ferrarises
  5. ferrarisite
  6. ferrary
  7. Ferras
  8. ferrash
  9. ferrashes
  10. ferrata
  11. Ferrata cell

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