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Without joints, or the use of joints; having no joints, stiff, rigid.
Colloquial phrases. stiff as a poker; stiff in the back, firm, resolute; to keep (carry, have) a stiff upper lip, to be firm, unyielding; hence sti…
Rigid, strict; solemn, formal.
dialect. Unbending, stiff.