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comparative more hard-wearing, superlative most hard-wearing
Able to withstand a significant amount of usage without physical deterioration; durable. quotations examples
Throughout B.R. activity to improve drainage and ballast, to lay in more long-welded rails [...] and concrete sleepers, and to provide more hard-wearing pointwork and crossings will be intensified in the next four years.
1959 September, “The Re-appraisal of the B.R. Modernisation Plan”, in Trains Illustrated, page 411