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Ironbound adj.

Bound as with iron; rugged; as, an ironbound coast.

Rigid; unyielding; as, ironbound traditions.

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Etymology of 'Ironbound'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Ironbound" Quotes from Famous Books

... farmers and planters or any of the laboring classes immediately dependent on farmers. It gives only the wages of the highest class of skilled laborers and in those trades only where the men are organized in ironbound trades unions which force up the wages of their members. Take the lists and census and add the numbers employed in every trade mentioned in that report, and you will find that all together they only amount to one fourth the number ...

— If Not Silver, What? • John W. Bookwalter

... deep tangled wildwood, And every loved spot which my infancy knew; The wide-spreading pond, and the mill that stood by it: The bridge and the rock where the cataract fell: The cot of my father, the dairy house nigh it, And e'en the rude bucket which hung in the well: The old oaken bucket, the ironbound bucket, The moss-covered bucket ...

— McGuffey's Fourth Eclectic Reader • William Holmes McGuffey