Usually means: Armored wooden ship with iron.
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  1. ironclad: Merriam-Webster
  2. ironclad: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ironclad: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ironclad: Collins English Dictionary
  5. ironclad: Vocabulary.com
  6. Ironclad, ironclad: Wordnik
  7. ironclad: Wiktionary
  8. ironclad: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. ironclad: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. ironclad: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Ironclad, ironclad: Dictionary.com
  12. ironclad: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. ironclad: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Ironclad (disambiguation), Ironclad (film), Ironclad (game), Ironclad (video game), Ironclad: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Ironclad: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. ironclad: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. ironclad: Rhymezone
  18. Ironclad: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. Ironclad: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  20. ironclad: FreeDictionary.org
  21. ironclad: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. ironclad: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. ironclad: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  24. ironclad: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  3. ironclad: Legal dictionary

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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Covered with iron, steel, or some metal; armor-plated.
adjective:  (figuratively) Solid or certain; not able to be disputed or questioned; irrefutable.
adjective:  (figuratively) Rigorous; severe; exacting.
adjective:  (figuratively) Stubborn; inflexible.
noun:  A metal-plated ship, vessel, or vehicle.
noun:  (military) An armor-plated warship, (especially) one preceding the invention of harveyized steel.

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