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Ironclad   /ˈaɪərnklˌæd/   Listen
noun
Ironclad  n.  A naval vessel having the parts above water covered and protected by iron or steel usually in large plates closely joined and made sufficiently thick and strong to resist heavy shot. Modern naval vessels are made of steel throughout, and this term is only used in historical contexts.



adjective
Ironclad  adj.  
1.
Clad in iron; protected or covered with iron, as a vessel for naval warfare.
2.
Rigorous; unbreakable; severe; exacting; inflexible; as, an ironclad oath or pledge. (Colloq.)



Ironclad  adj.  
1.
Having an outer covering of iron or steel; as, an ironclad war vessel.
2.
So strong or secure as to be unbreakable; as, an ironclad contract.






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"Ironclad" Quotes from Famous Books



... Schenectady—and that her best citizens are still her best citizens, and that Rev. George R. Lunn and all his Socialist crew can't do a great amount of harm in two years to a city that possesses such an ironclad charter as that with which Horace White, when he was a Senator, endowed every city of the second class in the Empire State. The conservative element in town back that charter against all the reforms that the minister who is to be mayor and his following of machinists, plumbers, coachmen, ...
— Socialism As It Is - A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement • William English Walling

... looks different to me every time I float on its noble flood. I have seen it from on board steamers large and small, from an Indiaman's deck, the gunwale of a cutter, and the poop of an ironclad, as well as from rowboat and canoe, and have penetrated almost every nook and cranny on the water, some of them a dozen times, yet always ...
— The Voyage Alone in the Yawl "Rob Roy" • John MacGregor

... is closely packed, the walls may be only a few inches thick; if the snow is soft, the blocks are thicker, that they may hold their shape. The blocks for the bottom layer are sometimes two or three feet long and two feet high; but sometimes they are much smaller, as there is no ironclad ...
— The North Pole - Its Discovery in 1909 under the auspices of the Peary Arctic Club • Robert E. Peary

... embark he was seized with a sudden faintness. Even the toughest seafarer would have thought twice before venturing beyond the breakwater in such an unsavoury derelict; and Reginald, be it remembered, had only once in his life made a sea voyage, and that in the peaceful security of an ironclad. His heart quailed ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, January 14, 1920 • Various

... German Emperor proceeded to hold a review of the Austro-Hungarian Fleet and went beyond the official programme by going aboard the ironclad Francis Joseph, flying the flag of Admiral Sterneck. After this, inviting himself to luncheon with the Archduke Charles Stephen, commanding the Austrian squadron, he made a fervent speech, wishing health and glory to his precious ally the ...
— The Schemes of the Kaiser • Juliette Adam


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