Definition of "hard-baked" [hard-baked]

• Baked until hard. (adjective)

Gnu Collaboartive International Dictionary of English: licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

• "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."