Anagrams of: HARDBACKED

• a coarse homespun cotton cloth made in India

• one who works hard at boring tasks

• a politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends

• a mediocre and disdained writer

• a tool (as a hoe or pick or mattock) used for breaking up the surface of the soil

• a car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money

• an old or over-worked horse

• a horse kept for hire

• a saddle horse used for transportation rather than sport etc.

• cut with a hacking tool

• be able to manage or manage successfully

• cut away

• kick on the arms

• kick on the shins

• fix a computer program piecemeal until it works

• significantly cut up a manuscript

• cough spasmodically

• having a back or backing, usually of a specified type

• used of film that is coated on the side opposite the emulsion with a substance to absorb light

• someone who plays golf poorly

• a programmer for whom computing is its own reward; may enjoy the challenge of breaking into other computers but does no harm

• one who works hard at boring tasks

• (Ayurveda) Any of (at least more than) seven centres of spiritual energy in the body, according to Ayurveda philosophy.

• A domestic spinning wheel, used mostly for spinning cotton.

• An elephant trap; an enclosure constructed to entrap wild elephants.

• hard smooth-textured cheese; originally made in Cheddar in southwestern England

• a village in southwestern England where cheddar cheese was first made