What is "callused"

Usage examples of "callused".

Callused and scarred, they told the story of broncs rode and a life lived.

Bailie the Red had an arrow in his cracked and callused bowhand and was stroking the fletching feathers, nodding almost continually.

She dismounted and walked up to Herm, her callused hand extended in a friendly way.

I said, and took one of his hands between my own, rubbing the ointment into the creases of his knuckles, massaging his callused palms.

Their deft, callused feet slapped and splashed along the piled-stone pathways, immune to bruises and the lapping icy water.

They knocked their dusty sombreros back on the tugstrings with callused thumbs as they stepped into the Gathering Hall, looking uneasily at each other.

Its cracked and wrinkled flesh, wattled skin, callused lips, blisters, warts, and array of scars seemed to indicate great age.

Climbing the hill from the river, stopping for breath, an old dog fell in beside her as she started to climb again, every effort of hers caught up in its plodding step, head carried low going white down muzzle and flews, elbow and hock gone hairless and callused, its dry black coat thinned toward the tail.

Out there on the brick, the old dog hunched scratching a callused elbow with those red nails.

Nor were there any blisters on his palms and fingers, which, as he now thoughtfully noted, had been heavily callused all along.

A fellow could lame himself easily, even a callused peasant who wore shoes only after the ponds froze.

Slowly he took her hand, his callused palm sliding against her softer one and his hard, warm fingers wrapping around hers.

He put his hand on her throat, his callused thumb rubbing the sensitive tendons running down to her shoulder and making her shiver.

His was thick and beefy, callused, the ragged nails black with encrusted dirt.

Her stomach clenched again at the contrast of her hand lying in that callused palm.