ironboundとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

ironbound (comparative more ironbound, superlative most ironbound)

1. Bound with iron, ironclad.
2. (figuratively) Rugged.

   an ironbound coast

   • 1820, [Charles Robert Maturin], Melmoth the Wanderer: A Tale. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Company, and Hurst, Robinson, and Co., […], OCLC 1202978654, page 150:

     He rose and went down to the kitchen, where he knew a fire was burning, and there the terrified servants were all assembled, all agreeing, as the blast came roaring down the chimney, they never had witnessed such a storm, and between the gusts, breathing shuddering prayers for those who were “out at sea that night.” The vicinity of Melmoth’s house to what seamen call an iron-bound coast, gave a dreadful sincerity to their prayers and their fears.

3. (figuratively) Rigid, unyielding.

   ironbound traditions