hardies

Noun

hardy (plural hardies)

1. (plural-normally) 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.2009 June 1, David Carr, “Cast Out, but Still Reporting”, in New York Times
2. A blacksmith's fuller or chisel, having a square shank for insertion into a square hole in an anvil.
3. A hardy hole.

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