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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



... was only the almost unaided human arm with which to subdue the boundless savagery of a continent, and win independence and form a nation besides. The demand for huge masses of the most essential of the factors of civilization has grown since, because the ironclad and the big gun have come, and those inadequate forces and crude methods supplied for a time the demand that was small and imperative. The largest mass made then, and frequently spoken of in colonial ...
— Steam Steel and Electricity • James W. Steele
... of three carriages with white-favour-adorned horses and drivers, went through all the huge, noisy, indifferent traffic like a lost china image in the coal-chute of an ironclad. Nobody made way for us, nobody cared for us; the driver of an omnibus jeered; for a long time we crawled behind an unamiable dust-cart. The irrelevant clatter and tumult gave a queer flavour of indecency to this public coming together of lovers. We seemed to ...
— Tono Bungay • H. G. Wells
... had not been idle during the preparation of the main ironclad fleet. Arriving at Cairo, as has been stated, on the 12th of August, the necessity for action soon arose. During the early months of the war the State of Kentucky had announced her intention of remaining a neutral between the contending parties. Neither of ...
— The Gulf and Inland Waters - The Navy in the Civil War. Volume 3. • A. T. Mahan
... our ironclad rule on this point, I want to know it. I expect to see that girl at once after prayers. Of course, if nobody here is guilty we must believe that some passer-by ventured down upon the river while ...
— A Little Miss Nobody - Or, With the Girls of Pinewood Hall • Amy Bell Marlowe
... left New York, she was picked up on the limit of the American water by two cruisers, which would keep pace with her as well as they could until she reached the first battleship. As she passed the ironclad these two would leave her, and the next two would take up the running, and so on until she reached the range of operations ...
— The Angel of the Revolution - A Tale of the Coming Terror • George Griffith


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