hardy

1
Having rugged physical strength; inured to fatigue or hardships.
It is an useful sort of the smaller kind of hogs, that is hardy in its nature and of considerable weight in proportion to its size.
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2
Able to survive adverse growing conditions, especially frost.
A hardy plant is one that can withstand the extremes of climate, such as frost.
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3
Brave and resolute.
But he was not ſo hardy to abide That bitter ſtownd, but turning quicke aſide His light-foot beaſt, fled faſt away for feare:

1
Anything, especially a plant, that is hardy.
Across the country, various bands of journalistic hardies — newsroom pros whose services are no longer salient to a crippled and disrupted information economy — have taken matters into their own hands.
2
A blacksmith's fuller or chisel, having a square shank for insertion into a square hole in an anvil.
3

name

1
A former town in Manchester, England, now absorbed into Chorlton-cum-Hardy.
2
A common surname transferred from the nickname, originally a nickname for a hardy person.

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