View sign 'hard'

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Description

Hold of left hand palm, straight up in front of left breast, back to left and slightly to front; strike it with right fist two or three times drawing right hand back only a few inches.


Synonyms: brave, difficult, firm, inexorable, unfeeling

Notes

Clark notes that this sign is used in such setences as a "hard man to trade with," "a high rocky mountain," and also sometimes in the sense of firm, determined, brave, etc.