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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. having a stiff back;
- Example: "the guards stood stiff-backed and unsmiling"



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Stiff-backed \Stiff"-backed`\, a.
   Obstinate. --J. H. Newman.
   [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

stiff-backed
    adj 1: having a stiff back; "the guards stood stiff-backed and
           unsmiling"