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hardshelled, a.
1. Having a hard shell; = hardshell a. 1.
1611Cotgr. s.v. Reffe, An hard-sheld nut. 1782J. H. St. John de Crèvecœur Lett. Amer. Farmer iv. 135 The shores..abound with the soft-shelled, the hard-shelled, and the great sea clams. 1796B. Hawkins Lett. (1916) 17 A grove of dwarf hard shelled hickory trees. 1839C. F. Briggs Adv. H. Franco II. i. 2 Close by, was a negro opening hard-shelled clams. 1865Trans. Ill. Agric. Soc. V. 408 Beetles, or, as they are sometimes called, ‘hard-shelled bugs’. 1942M. K. Rawlings Cross Creek Cookery xvii. 191 Why does a hard-shelled cooter lay a soft-shelled egg, and a soft-shelled cooter lay a hard-shelled egg?
2. fig. = hardshell a. 2. Also, hardened, callous.
1842J. S. Buckingham Slave States Amer. I. 197 The Baptists [in Macon, Georgia] are of the order called here ‘Hardshelled Baptists’. 1872W. Mathews Getting on in World xi. 153 There is no man so ‘hard-shelled’ that his soul cannot be reached by kindness. 1904N.Y. Herald 23 Oct. 16 There are a good many hard shelled Bryan men who intend to vote for Roosevelt. 1909R. A. Wason Happy Hawkins 108 It was a hard-shelled book. 1941J. Stuart Men of Mountains 331 If you could see all of us Republicans, Democrats, Methodists, Forty-Gallon Baptists, Hard shelled Baptists,..shaking hands and asking the other how he is after the long night o' sleep. 1965Times Lit. Suppl. 25 Nov. 1046/1 Various forms of hard⁓shelled Establishment versus dissent. |