ironclad – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
ironclad
adj.
armored, protected by an iron covering; hard, tough
n.
type of warship covered with iron plates
Ironclad warship
An
ironclad is a
steam-propelled warship protected by
iron or
steel armor plates used in the early part of the second half of the 19th century. The ironclad was developed as a result of the vulnerability of wooden warships to explosive or incendiary
shells. The first ironclad battleship, , was launched by the
French Navy in November 1859. The British
Admiralty had been considering armored warships since 1856 and prepared a draft design for an armored
corvette in 1857; in early 1859 the
Royal Navy started building two iron-hulled armored frigates, and by 1861 had made the decision to move to an all-armored battle fleet. After the
first clashes of ironclads (both with wooden ships and with one another) took place in 1862 during the
American Civil War, it became clear that the ironclad had replaced the unarmored
ship of the line as the most powerful warship afloat. This type of ship would come to be very successful in the American Civil War.
ironclad
Adjective
1. inflexibly entrenched and unchangeable; "brassbound traditions"; "brassbound party loyalists"; "an ironclad rule"
(synonym) brassbound
(similar) inflexible
2. without flaws or loopholes; "an ironclad contract"; "a watertight alibi"; "a bulletproof argument"
(synonym) unassailable, unshakable, watertight, bulletproof
(similar) incontestable, incontestible
Ironclad
(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.
(a.)
Rigorous; severe; exacting; as, an ironclad oath or pledge.
(a.)
Clad in iron; protected or covered with iron, as a vessel for naval warfare.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
About
ironclad
Synonyms and related words:
armed cap-a-pie, armor-plated, armored, constant, dour, firm, fixed, fundamentalist, hard, hidebound, immovable, immutable, impliable, in armor, in complete steel, in harness, inalterable, inexorable, inflexible, invariable, iron, ironbound, ironhanded, loricate, loricated, mailclad, mailed, muscle-bound, obdurate, obstinate, orthodox, panoplied, procrustean, purist, puristic, puritan, puritanic, relentless, rigid, rigorist, rigoristic, rigorous, rockbound, stiff, straightlaced, straitlaced, stubborn, unalterable, unbending, uncompromising, unmodifiable, unrelenting, unyielding
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.
