hards
Americanplural noun
plural noun
Etymology
Origin of hards
First recorded before 900; Middle English herdes, Old English heordan
Example Sentences
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But it soon became apparent in the first stint that the cars who had started on hards were struggling.
From BBC • Oct. 19, 2025
The top four had started on medium tyres, while Russell, Verstappen and Hamilton behind them were on the hards.
From BBC • May 26, 2024
Lap 13: Vettel has also pitted - on go the hards.
From The Guardian • Sep. 5, 2021
So be certain that each second of this trailer was scrutinized for spoilers, and possibly even intentionally threaded with a few bread crumbs for the die hards.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 20, 2015
The Anglo-Saxon term for the hards, or the coarse part, of flax or unplucked wool.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir
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