Definitions for hard-shell

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Spelling: [hahrd-shel]
IPA: /ˈhɑrdˌʃɛl/

Hard-Shell is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 299 anagrams from letters in hard-shell (-adehhllrs).

Definitions for hard-shell

noun

  1. hard-shell crab.

adjective

  1. Also, hard-shelled. having a firm, hard shell, as a crab in its normal state; not having recently molted.
  2. rigid or uncompromising.

Origin of hard-shell

First recorded in 1790-1800

Examples for hard-shell

This man was a hard-shell Baptist, commonly imperturbable to outside sights and doings when the spirit moved him.

These people boast that their hard-shell wheat is decidedly superior to that of Dakota and Minnesota.

The Almonds commonly sold by nurserymen in the east are hard-shell varieties, and the nuts are not good enough for commerce.

He is such a hard-shell being that he cannot put out feelers to his kind.

There are reasons, in other words, for hard-shell conservatives to give him the gimlet eye.

When the oyster season closes in April, the hard-shell clam comes into vogue, the season lasting until September or October.

The former is sold in the San Francisco markets as the "hard-shell clam."

One main culprit was the hard-shell helmet that had essentially become a spearing weapon.

From a policy perspective, this is the next battleground, the pressure point of resistance for the hard-shell ideologues.

What the hard-shell righties want to know is not about the boring issue of consular security.

Word Value for hard-shell
Scrable

8

Words with friends

7

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