ironclad

ironclad has 6 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 8.

Definitions

• a.. Clad in iron; protected or covered with iron, as a vessel for naval warfare.
• a.. Rigorous; severe; exacting; as, an ironclad oath or pledge.
• 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.
• n.. a wooden warship of the 19th century that is plated with iron or steel armor
• a.. inflexibly entrenched and unchangeable; "brassbound traditions"; "brassbound party loyalists"; "an ironclad rule"
• a.. sheathed in iron plates for protection