hardy

UK /ˈhɑɹdi/ US /ˈhɑɹdi/
name 6adj 4noun 3

Definitions

adj

1

Having rugged physical strength; inured to fatigue or hardships.

It is an useful sort of the smaller kind of hogs, that is hardy in its nature and of considerable weight in proportion to its size.

Even adding 1mm of thickness to the cardboard, to make it hardier, might use up a substantial forest when multiplied across hundreds of billions of boxes.

2

Able to survive adverse growing conditions, especially frost.

A hardy plant is one that can withstand the extremes of climate, such as frost.

The oat is hardier than wheat, and ripens in higher latitudes.

3

Brave and resolute.

But he was not ſo hardy to abide That bitter ſtownd, but turning quicke aſide His light-foot beaſt, fled faſt away for feare:

4

Impudent.

noun

1

Anything, especially a plant, that is hardy.

Across the country, various bands of journalistic hardies — newsroom pros whose services are no longer salient to a crippled and disrupted information economy — have taken matters into their own hands.

2

A blacksmith's fuller or chisel, having a square shank for insertion into a square hole in an anvil.

3

hardy hole

name

1

A former town in Manchester, England, now absorbed into Chorlton-cum-Hardy.

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