| 1. | Also, hard-shelled. having a firm, hard shell, as a crab in its normal state; not having recently molted. |
| 2. | rigid or uncompromising. |
| 3. | hard-shell crab. |

| hard-shell (härd'shěl') n. A hard-shell clam or hard-shell crab. adj. also hard-shelled (-shěld')
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