Word Meanings - IRONBOUND - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Bound as with iron; rugged; as, an ironbound coast. 2. Rigid; unyielding; as, ironbound traditions.

Related words: (words related to IRONBOUND)

• BOUNDLESS
  Without bounds or confines; illimitable; vast; unlimited. "The boundless sky." Bryant. "The boundless ocean." Dryden. "Boundless rapacity." "Boundless prospect of gain." Macaulay. Syn. -- Unlimited; unconfined; immeasurable; illimitable; infinite.
• RIGID
  1. Firm; stiff; unyielding; not pliant; not flexible. Upright beams innumerable Of rigid spears. Milton. 2. Hence, not lax or indulgent; severe; inflexible; strict; as, a rigid father or master; rigid discipline; rigid criticism; a rigid sentence.
• RIGIDLY
  In a rigid manner; stiffly.
• BOUNDING
  Moving with a bound or bounds. The bounding pulse, the languid limb. Montgomery.
• RUGGY
  Rugged; rough. "With ruggy, ashy hairs." Chaucer.
• COASTING
  Sailing along or near a coast, or running between ports along a coast. Coasting trade, trade carried on by water between neighboring ports of the same country, as distinguished fron foreign trade or trade involving long voyages. -- Coasting vessel,
• COAST
  1. The side of a thing. Sir I. Newton. 2. The exterior line, limit, or border of a country; frontier border. From the river, the river Euphrates, even to the uttermost sea, shall your coast be. Deut. xi. 24. 3. The seashore, or land near it.
• RUGGING
  A coarse kind of woolen cloth, used for wrapping, blanketing, etc.
• RIGIDITY
  1. The quality or state of being rigid; want of pliability; the quality of resisting change of from; the amount of resistance with which a body opposes change of form; -- opposed to flexibility, ductility, malleability, and softness. 2. Stiffness
• RIGIDULOUS
  Somewhat rigid or stiff; as, a rigidulous bristle.
• COASTWISE; COASTWAYS
  By way of, or along, the coast.
• COASTER
  1. A vessel employed in sailing along a coast, or engaged in the coasting trade. 2. One who sails near the shore.
• COASTAL
  Of or pertaining to a cast.
• IRONBOUND
  1. Bound as with iron; rugged; as, an ironbound coast. 2. Rigid; unyielding; as, ironbound traditions.
• RIGIDNESS
  The quality or state of being rigid.
• BOUNDEN
  1. Bound; fastened by bonds. 2. Under obligation; bound by some favor rendered; obliged; beholden. This holy word, that teacheth us truly our bounden duty toward our Lord God in every point. Ridley. 3. Made obligatory; imposed as a duty; binding.
• COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY
  A bureau of the United States government charged with the topographic and hydrographic survey of the coast and the execution of belts of primary triangulation and lines of precise leveling in the interior. It now belongs to the Department
• BOUNDARY
  That which indicates or fixes a limit or extent, or marks a bound, as of a territory; a bounding or separating line; a real or imaginary limit. But still his native country lies Beyond the boundaries of the skies. N. Cotton. That bright and tranquil
• BOUNDER
  One who, or that which, limits; a boundary. Sir T. Herbert.
• RUGGED
  1. Full of asperities on the surface; broken into sharp or irregular points, or otherwise uneven; not smooth; rough; as, a rugged mountain; a rugged road. The rugged bark of some broad elm. Milton. 2. Not neat or regular; uneven. His
• HOME-BOUND
  Kept at home.
• OUTBOUND
  Outward bound. Dryden.
• DRUGGET
  perh, the same word as drogue drug, but cf. also W. drwg evil, bad, A coarse woolen cloth dyed of one color or printed on one side; generally used as a covering for carpets. By extension, any material used for the same purpose.
• DRUGGER
  A druggist. Burton.
• UNBOUND
  imp. & p. p. of Unbind.
• TRUGGING-HOUSE
  A brothel. Robert Greene.
• UNBOUNDED
  Having no bound or limit; as, unbounded space; an, unbounded ambition. Addison. -- Un*bound"ed*ly, adv. -- Un*bound"ed*ness, n.
• STRUGGLER
  One who struggles.
• SURREBOUND
  To give back echoes; to reëcho. Chapman.
• REBOUND
  1. To spring back; to start back; to be sent back or reverberated by elastic force on collision with another body; as, a rebounding echo. Bodies which are absolutely hard, or so soft as to be void of elasticity, will not rebound from one another.
• OUTBOUNDS
  The farthest or exterior bounds; extreme limits; boundaries. Spenser.
• WINDBOUND
  prevented from sailing, by a contrary wind. See Weatherbound.
• SNOW-BOUND
  Enveloped in, or confined by, snow. Whittier.
• INFRIGIDATE
  To chill; to make cold; to cool. Boyle.