A brassbound campaign chest.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

brassbound traditions.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Adjective : brassbound regulations. ,brassbound presumption.    From Dictionary.com. 

The older sister had obtained a thick brassbound staff, her own height in length.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conan the Fearless]

Once he took me into a guest room and showed me my baby clothes, packed away in a brassbound trunk.    From Wordnik.com.  [Earthly Possessions]

Two heavily muscled guards bowed, along with twenty others nearby, before pulling open the tall, brassbound doors leading to an arcaded passageway.    From Wordnik.com.  [Temple of the Winds]

And how about my father's Graflex that I had never used, and my baby clothes in the brassbound trunk and the files full of dead people's passport photos?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Earthly Possessions]

 They had their own private entrance and a large square hall furnished with soft Persian carpets and an intricately carved brassbound chest, plainly of great antiquity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Falcon's Prey]

Rachel, on her knees before the brassbound trunk containing her cousin's clothes, gave her own sigh as she took out the white silk dress and stood up with the gleaming folds over her arm.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dearly Beloved] Reference

There were lockers along the floor under the bed, and along the sides of the cabin, and in one corner a heavy chest such as seamen often use to contain their valuables, this being brassbound and padlocked.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hilltop Boys on Lost Island] Reference

Then the back door -- in halves -- and the back step, brassbound, treacherous.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tomaso's Fortune and Other Stories] Reference

The youngster resumed his swollen cheek and escorted Morris up three flights of slippery brassbound stairs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Abe and Mawruss Being Further Adventures of Potash and Perlmutter] Reference

Chinoiserie apparent in lantern chandeliers, mirrored brassbound screens and celadon green embossed leather seating.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evening Standard - Home] Reference

"No fear of my tattling," and the boy smiled curiously to himself as he bent over the book, polishing the brassbound cover.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mysterious Key and What It Opened] Reference

Lesson learned, though; as soon as the weekend was over, I went into Exeter and bought myself a good-quality brassbound lock-knife, with a four-inch blade.    From Wordnik.com.  [Army Rumour Service] Reference

"self-correction" and "eternally contingent conclusions," but the plain truth of the matter is that scientists may be the most brassbound, obdurate and reactionary people on the planet, clinging to their pet theories and received orthodoxy with an intransigent stubbornness that would make a medieval churchman blush.    From Wordnik.com.  [Uncommon Descent] Reference

Schmaltz, real copperriveted, brassbound, steeljacketed, castiron schmaltz.    From Wordnik.com.  [Greener Than You Think] Reference

But synonyms for "stubborn" include: "brassbound, grim, implacable, inflexible ... remorseless.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Deanie Mills: The Difference Between A Functional Leader And A Fictional One] Reference