Uncompromising.
Stiff, rather than flexible.
Fixed, rather than moving.
Rigorous and unbending.
An airship whose shape is maintained solely by an internal and/or external rigid structural framework, without using internal gas pressure to stiffen the vehicle (the lifting gas is at atmospheric pressure); typically also equipped with multiple redundant gasbags, unlike other types of airship.
A bicycle with no suspension system.
Grim and forbidding in appearance.
Having a hardness and severity of nature or manner.
A bird, the black tern.
The tail of an animal; now used only of the tail of a dog.
The hinder part of anything.
The post of management or direction.
The rear part or after end of a ship or vessel.
To propel or move backward or stern-first in the water.