Gnu Collaboartive International Dictionary of English: licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)
Use "hard-baked" in a sentence
"The sun was a merciless yellow eye glaring down at a landscape of rock, hard-baked Earth, the hardiest of scrub brushes and the most stubborn of life-forms."
"Her hard-baked shoes were slippery, and her sodden knapsack seemed to weigh a ton."
"In the summer the yard was hard-baked dirt, cracked into jigsaw patterns, and in the winter it was dark with mud and cold with frost."