ironsides

/ ˈaɪənˌsaɪdz /

noun

1. a person with great stamina or resistance
2. an ironclad ship
3. often capital in the English Civil War
   1. the cavalry regiment trained and commanded by Oliver Cromwell
   2. Cromwell's entire army

Example Sentences

Now this horse, who was called Old Ironsides, was as famous for his kicking habits as Cæsar was for his sheep-killing.

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The Ironsides kept the main channel, which brought her within about one thousand yards of Moultrie and Sumter.

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She referred him to Susan to see if there were rooms which the Ironsides could have.

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Wherever there was a downpour of leaden rain Jackson and the "Ironsides" would have been in accord.

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When the royalist gentry went down before Cromwell's Ironsides, absolutism received its death-wound.

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