Meaning ofhardpanin English

Noun

1. a soil layer impervious to water
   The farmers struggled to dig through the hardpan in their field.
2. a dry lake bed; barren landscape
   The hikers traversed the hardpan of the dry lake bed, searching for signs of life.
3. a former lake; now dry and habitually so
   The geologists studied the hardpan, a remnant of a lake that had long since dried up.