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ironsides

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun ironsides has 1 sense

ironsides(n = noun.person) cromwell, oliver cromwell - English general and statesman who led the parliamentary army in the English Civil War (1599-1658); Array

is a kind of full general, general, national leader, solon, statesman

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ironsides, prop. n.

A nickname for Oliver Cromwell. [PJC]
A nickname for Edmund II of England. [PJC]

ironsides, n.

A cuirassier or cuirassiers; also, hardy veteran soldiers; -- applied specifically to Cromwell's cavalry.

Old Ironsides. (U. S. Hist.) A nickname for the U.S.S. Constitution, a sailing ship which fought in the American Revolutionary war, and now functions as a floating museum in Boston harbor. It was given its nickname because cannonballs bounced off its hard wooden sides.

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

ironsides, n. a man of great bravery, esp. (as pl.) Cromwell's troopers in the English Civil War.

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