"hard as brazil" meaning in English

{
  "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": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "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"
        }
      ],
      "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": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "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": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "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": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "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": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "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"
      ],
      "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": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "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": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "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": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Extremely hard."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "hard",
          "hard#Adjective"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "simile",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(simile, dialectal, archaic) Extremely hard."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "dialectal",
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "hard as brazil"
}