Definitions for ironclads

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ironclads i·ron·clad

Spelling: [adjective ahy-ern-klad; noun Ironclads is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 793 anagrams from letters in ironclads (acdilnors).

Definitions for ironclads

noun

1. a wooden warship of the middle or late 19th century having iron or steel armor plating.

adjective

1. covered or cased with iron plates, as a ship for naval warfare; armor-plated.
2. very rigid or exacting; inflexible; unbreakable:

Origin of ironclads

First recorded in 1850-55; iron + clad¹

Examples for ironclads

The ironclad seemed to rebound and tremble for a moment, and then passed on.

What they need is a workable, ironclad, conflict-ending arrangement to allow them to live side-by-side in peace.

A monster Russian ironclad, it was said, lay somewhere “outside.”

The other rule, which is just as ironclad, gave rise to their motto: “Blood In/Blood Out.”

The vessel described was the Miantonoma, an American ironclad turret-ship.

You might go so far as t' give that bellerin' ironclad a toot.'

First of all I'd have to tie Josephine Francis down with an ironclad contract.

The ironclad rule for entrée into the Brotherhood is simple: kill a black or a Hispanic prisoner.

But its now obvious the ironclad security guarantees they claimed to provide are perfectly hollow.

The Dallas case is breaking some of our ironclad assumptions.