ferrary

English

Etymology

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

Noun

ferrary (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) The art of ironworking.
   • c. 1610s, Homer (attributed), translated by George Chapman, The Crowne of all Homers Workes: Batrachomyomachia, or the Battaile of Frogs and Mise […], published 1624:

     And all my tools of heavenly ferrary.
     Thus from his anvil the huge monster rose

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “ferrary”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)