hardbackedadj.

1830 G. P. R. James De L'Orme II. v. 86 So help me, Heaven! as I would rather ride a grindstone by the hour together, than the stiff ridge of this hard-backed charger.

1871 J. E. Willet Wonders Insect Life ii. 17 ‘Why, father, these do not look like jack worms. These are hard-backed bugs.’ ‘Not so fast, my son. These are beetles, it is true, but most of them are jack worms too.’

1971 W. M. Rogoff in R. E. Pfadt Fund. Appl. Entomol. (ed. 2) xxi. 612 (caption) Hardbacked ticks Transmit: Rocky Mountain spotted fever, ‘Q’ fever, tularemia, Colorado tick fever.

1994 Angler's Mail 18 June 53/2 Bass to double-figures from Gower beaches to spinners or hard backed or swimming crabs.

2007 M. Renssen S. Afr. xii. 148/2 Wear long trousers to evade ticks, particularly a tiny, reddish hard-backed species that can transmit tick-bite fever.

1836 J. W. Kaye Jerningham II. x. 328 Throwing myself into the corner of the hard-backed, comfortless vehicle, I abandoned myself to reflections.

1870 Dublin Univ. Mag. Mar. 272/1 His arm would not keep up on that hard-backed sofa—it found, all unseen, a much softer resting-place.

1931 E. Bliss Saraband i. 68 They sat on the hard-backed benches and shared copies of the score.

1969 Negro Digest Nov. 66/1 He angles his tall frame into the hardbacked seat [of the trolley car].

2011 Birmingham Post (Nexis) 6 Jan. 11 He sat upright in his hardbacked chair, a true Puritan conceding not one inch to self-indulgence.

1906 World's Work June 7683/2 He thought that without the old-fashioned hard-backed ledger he really would not be safe—he was afraid somebody would run off with the leaves.

1973 New Sci. 20 Dec. 867/1 It will appeal to libraries because it is well-produced and hardbacked.

2008 J. Quinn Goodnight Ballivor v. 31 It is standard government issue—a small hard-backed notebook with the initials OAS..imprinted on its black cover.