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Webster 1913 Edition

Ironclad

I′ron-cladˊ

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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

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[Colloq.]