iron-sidedadj.

1659 J. Gauden Ἱερα Δακρυα ii. xxxiii. 258 The Ministry: where..any single men (being more..callous and iron-sided) can bear with, and bustle through their own sufferings.

1722 Coll. Misc. Lett. Mist's Weekly Jrnl. I. lxxxi. 238 I have a hard-favoured, hard-hearted, Iron-sided, hard-humoured Helpmate.

1778 R. Cumberland Battle of Hastings v. 92 My grandsire Iron-sided Edmund fought.

1855 Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star 20 Jan. 35/1 Skin-flint Presbyterians, iron-sided Baptists, experience-telling Methodists.

1871 E. Kellogg Arthur Brown xi. 159 You will find him better, on an emergency, than many older persons; for he belongs to an iron-sided race.

1921 Indianapolis Sunday Star 29 May 15 That is..because he is such an iron-sided old revolutionist.

1966 Arizona Republic 12 June f1/1 It calls for..adoring fathers, willing relatives and iron-sided mothers.

2007 Sunday Mail (S. Austral.) (Nexis) 19 Aug. 105 Graham gets good laughs as the classic paranoid public servant.., while Eustice nicely underplays as his ironsided offsider.

a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Iron-sided, hardy, rough; unmanageable. A boy who fears nobody, and plays..mischievous tricks, is called an iron-sided dog.

1901 F. Hall in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1902) III. 331/1 [E. Suffolk] That boy's a reglar iron-sided young devil. She be an iron-sided hussy.

1663 E. Waterhouse Fortescutus Illustratus xxix. 375 Of our well-grown, and sturdy Iron-sided Oak are our Ships made.

1820 Times 15 Apr. 3/5 (advt.) 2 wet and 3 dry capital iron-sided presses nearly new, 2 ditto with wooden sides.

1886 Van Nostrand's Engin. Mag. June 501/1 Occasionally a portion of the flame of a mineral oil Douglass burner, enclosed in a square iron-sided lantern, was used.

1922 Factory Nov. 525/1 The hot melted soap..was dropped into large iron-sided frames.

1975 J. Clavell Shōgun xxxii. 350 He stepped into the huge iron-sided bath and lay down.

2002 J. Farrell-Beck & C. Gau Uplift iv. 63 Ironsided corsets of coutil and featherbone.

1855 Times 2 May 5/3 A great experiment, instituted for the purpose of trying the effect of shot upon iron-sided vessels.

1858 Despatch 7 June in J. P. Baxter Introd. Ironclad Warship (2001) vi. 122 They are also laying down the first timbers of an iron-sided frigate to be called the ‘Gloire’.

1862 Whitewater (Wisconsin) Reg. 2 May By properly adapted projectiles, an iron-sided ship may be vulnerable without inordinately increasing the size of our guns.

1903 Internat. Jrnl. Surg. 16 279/1 It was the hopeless, dying struggle between the old world and the new; it was a forlorn resistance of wooden frigates against iron-sided monsters.

2008 N. A. Trudeau Southern Storm (2009) xxi. 500 Major J. A. Reynolds..wasn't averse to picking a fight with the iron-sided vessel.