Definitions
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- adjective
forceful ,excessive ,draconian , orabusive
Etymologies
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From the firmness of a strike of man's hand
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Examples
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In Boston in 18io the manual labour work on; the street, the digging of canals, and all the hardhanded physical labour was done by native Puritans of as good stock as anybody else.
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