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单词 iron-bound
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Definition of iron-bound in English:

iron-bound

adjective
  • 1Bound with iron.

    an old iron-bound chest
    Example sentencesExamples
    • At the foot of the bed a patch of darkness resolved into a heavy, iron-bound chest.
    • Locked iron-bound chests labelled with Sathe script were everywhere.
    • In one corner was a disarrayed mess of blankets that I guessed served as a bed, an iron-bound chest similar to Mai's tucked into a corner.
    1. 1.1 Rigorous or inflexible.
      iron-bound rules
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Of all rules of public law it is the one which does most to prevent the whole of the civilised world being brought under an iron-bound theory of government.
      • Ammons, like Kerouac, seems to have "gotten sick and tired of the conventional English sentence which seemed to me so iron-bound in its rules."
    2. 1.2archaic (of a coast) faced or enclosed with rocks.
 
 
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