Definition of Hard-baked

1. Adjective. Baked until hard.

Similar to: Cooked

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hard-baked

harbourmasters
harbours
harbourscape
harbourscapes
harbourside
harboursides
harboursome
harch
harchitect
hard(a)
hard-and-fast
hard-arse
hard-baked (current term)
hard-bill
hard-bills
hard-bitten
hard-boil
hard-boiled
hard-boiled egg
hard-code
hard-core
hard-favoured
hard-fisted
hard-fought
hard-handed
hard-headed
hard-hearted

Literary usage of Hard-baked

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Cultivator by New York State Agricultural Society (1860)
"CULTURE OF hard-baked SOILS. To produce a proper seed-bed on a heavy or hard-baked soil, is always a difficult matter, requiring a great amount of labor, ..."

2. The Federal Reporter: With Key-number Annotations by District of Columbia Court of Appeals, United States Commerce Court, Courts of Appeals (1890)
"... or what is known as "hard- baked," which are known in the trade as "paving tiles," and used quite extensively for floors in the vestibules of churches, ..."

3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"TERRA COTTA, hard baked clay or earthenware of exceptionally good quality, of uniform texture, hard and durable. The 'English Dictionary of Architecture,' ..."

4. Ethnobotany of the Tewa Indians by Wilfred William Robbins, John Peabody Harrington, Barbara W. Freire-Marreco (1916)
"Within living memory this hard-baked bread was an article of trade with the Comanche, who visited Santa Clara to barter fine whitened and painted buffalo ..."

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