"hard as brazil" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "etymology_text": "Referencing the hardness of brazilwood.",
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      "args": {
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      },
      "expansion": "hard as brazil (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
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        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English similes",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
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          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1842 June, Edward Daniell, “The Old Coffer”, in The Court Magazine & Monthly Critic, volume IX, London: Dobbs & Co, →OCLC, page 431:",
          "text": "Why, the wood 's as hard as Brazil! He must have spent weeks and weeks about it, let alone the cleverness of thing. Our carpenters would find it a job to make another sich a one; it ought fetch sum'mut homesomdever.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1894 October 6, R. Davies, quotee, “Literary Gossip”, in The Athenæum, number 3493, page 459, column 1:",
          "text": "Mr. R. Davies writes from Warrington: […] any hard wood described as being as 'hard as Bràzil'; and so on, though these old provincialisms are fast dying out before the schools of to-day.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1901 August 24, “Wiltshire Words”, in Literature, number 201, London: The Times, page 191, column 1:",
          "text": "It was but last Night that, the Supper not being to madam's liking, she found the Mutton as sour as a wig, and the Potatoes as hard as Brazil; and she told me afterwards that she should never endure the Cook-maid, though the Wench had been as fess as Cox's pig to enter her service.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Extremely hard."
      ],
      "id": "en-hard_as_brazil-en-adj-RpIW01Bn",
      "links": [
        [
          "hard",
          "hard#Adjective"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "simile",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(simile, dialectal, archaic) Extremely hard."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "dialectal",
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "hard as brazil"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "Referencing the hardness of brazilwood.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "hard as brazil (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
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        "English adjectives",
        "English dialectal terms",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English similes",
        "English terms with archaic senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncomparable adjectives",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1842 June, Edward Daniell, “The Old Coffer”, in The Court Magazine & Monthly Critic, volume IX, London: Dobbs & Co, →OCLC, page 431:",
          "text": "Why, the wood 's as hard as Brazil! He must have spent weeks and weeks about it, let alone the cleverness of thing. Our carpenters would find it a job to make another sich a one; it ought fetch sum'mut homesomdever.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1894 October 6, R. Davies, quotee, “Literary Gossip”, in The Athenæum, number 3493, page 459, column 1:",
          "text": "Mr. R. Davies writes from Warrington: […] any hard wood described as being as 'hard as Bràzil'; and so on, though these old provincialisms are fast dying out before the schools of to-day.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1901 August 24, “Wiltshire Words”, in Literature, number 201, London: The Times, page 191, column 1:",
          "text": "It was but last Night that, the Supper not being to madam's liking, she found the Mutton as sour as a wig, and the Potatoes as hard as Brazil; and she told me afterwards that she should never endure the Cook-maid, though the Wench had been as fess as Cox's pig to enter her service.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Extremely hard."
      ],
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        [
          "hard",
          "hard#Adjective"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "simile",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(simile, dialectal, archaic) Extremely hard."
      ],
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        "archaic",
        "dialectal",
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "hard as brazil"
}