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ironclad
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ironclad \I"ron*clad`\, a.
Clad in iron; protected or covered with iron, as a vessel for naval warfare.
Rigorous; unbreakable; severe; exacting; inflexible; as, an ironclad oath or pledge. [Colloq.]
Ironclad \I"ron*clad`\, 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.
Ironclad \I"ron*clad`\, a.
having an outer covering of iron or steel; as, an ironclad war vessel.
so strong or secure as to be unbreakable; as, an ironclad contract.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. Covered with iron, steel, or some metal, armor-plated n. A metal-plated ship, vessel, or vehicle
WordNet
adj. inflexibly entrenched and unchangeable; "brassbound traditions"; "brassbound party loyalists"; "an ironclad rule" [syn: brassbound]
without flaws or loopholes; "an ironclad contract"; "a watertight alibi"; "a bulletproof argument" [syn: unassailable, unshakable, watertight, bulletproof]
Wikipedia
Ironclad is a miniatures wargame written by Tom Wham and Don Lowry and published by Guidon Games in 1973. The rules simulate American Civil War naval combat such as the 1862 battle between the USS Monitor and the CSS Virginia.
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An ironclad is a wooden ship, or ship of composite construction, sheathed with thick iron plates.
Ironclad may also refer to:
- Ironclad (film), a 2011 action film
- Ironclad (game), a 1973 miniatures wargaming series by Guidon Games
- Ironclad (video game), a video game for the Neo Geo CD console
- Ironclad (comics), a Marvel comic book supervillain
- Ironclad (Common Lisp), a Common Lisp cryptography library
- "Ironclad", a song by Sleater-Kinney from All Hands on the Bad One
- "Ironclad", a song by Yngwie Malmsteen from '' Attack!!
- Ironclads (film), a 1991 TNT television film
- Ironclads: American Civil War, a computer game
- Ironclads: High Seas, a computer game
- Iron Clad, a rap group from Massachusetts
- Operation Ironclad or the Battle of Madagascar, the World War II British occupation of Diego Suarez, Madagascar
- Ironclad Games, a video game developer
- Legio VI Ferrata (Legion 6 Ironclad), a Roman legion
- Ironclad, a steam locomotive on the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway
Ironclad is a Common Lisp cryptography library aiming to provide functionality similar to OpenSSL or Crypto++.
Ironclad (known in Japan as Chōtetsu Brikin'ger) is a shoot 'em up video game developed by Saurus for the Neo Geo CD video game console.
It was never officially released in North America, but if the game is put on a North American system, the game will be playable in English and display the "Ironclad" title screen.
The game was released on the Wii Virtual Console in the PAL region on March 12, 2010 and in North America on April 5, 2010, with both regions as an import release.
An AES-based cartridge version was developed, but not available until 2009 when the Japanese Nintendo Wii's Virtual Console was released. Hackers were able to create bootleg Neo-Geo cartridges by extracting the rom (which never surfaced on the internet until then) from the Wii release.
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Ironclad is a 2011 action adventure war film directed by Jonathan English. Written by English and Erick Kastel, based on a screenplay by Stephen McDool, the cast includes James Purefoy, Brian Cox, Kate Mara, Paul Giamatti, Vladimir Kulich, Mackenzie Crook, Jason Flemyng, Derek Jacobi and Charles Dance. The film chronicles the siege of Rochester Castle by King John in 1215. The film was shot entirely in Wales in 2009 and produced on a budget of $25 million.
Usage examples of "ironclad".
To support these and concentrate from the earliest moment as effective a fire as possible upon the works, Farragut brought his ironclads inside of the wooden vessels, and abreast the four leaders of that column.
The little vessel continued to beat its way seaward, and the ironclads receded slowly towards the coast, which was hidden still by a marbled bank of vapour, part steam, part black gas, eddying and combining in the strangest way.
He had seven ironclads, of which three were larger vessels and four were gunboats built by Eads, a naval constructor with orignal ideas and great executive ability.
Museum of Plagiarism committee proved remarkably lacking in ironclad alibis.
There were more than a score, tiny figures in grey, and they had dogs, and something expressing the smoke: an ironclad tower as tall as the tardy pulled by Remade horses.
It was the remains of a nashorn, a rhino ironclad and Remade into a veldt tank.
On his bridge Captain Raphael Semmes looked through his glasses at the two ironclads, Union Jacks flapping and their guns run out.
The reason the name interested The Shadow was because Sheff, alone of the men Cardona listed, had an ironclad alibi - on a night when other crooks had difficulty proving their whereabouts.
When the sharp outlines of the red cliffs of Heligoland appeared, the German cruiser Seeadler came from the island to meet the squadron and reported that the coast ironclads Aegir and Odin, the cruisers Hansa, Vineta, Freya, and Hertha, together with the torpedo-boats, had set out from Wilhelmshaven during the night and had seen nothing of the enemy.
He forgot the Valley of the ashes at Exxon Petrochemical of the Damned, Dow Chemical, Texaco refinery, and standing hundreds of feet in the air atop the big iron ironclad tanks that he thought were once swimming pools for the gods to match the fluted Aeonian smokestack.
Mildred Powell was murdered by Howard Bubblehead Burnside at a time your federal want had an ironclad alibi.
These ironclads were accompanied by the large cruisers Friedrich Karl, Prinz Adalbert, Prinz Heinrich, Furst Bismarck, Viktoria Luise, Kaiserin Augusta, and the small cruisers Berlin, Hamburg, Bremen, Undine, Arcona, Frauenlob, and Medusa.
This operation will begin when a group of warcraft, containing four of our new ironclads, proceeds south as far as Recife in Brazil.
There were X-ray bunkers, steel-sheathed and coffin-shaped, that resembled ironclad warships sinking into the sand.
We saw a monitor lying near it, and sought good positions to view this specimen of the redoubtable ironclads of which we had heard and read so much.