ironsides
Britishnoun
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a person with great stamina or resistance
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an ironclad ship
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(often capital)
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the cavalry regiment trained and commanded by Oliver Cromwell
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Cromwell's entire army
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Example Sentences
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It was the old Sixth corps—the "ironsides" from the Potomac army, who learned how to fight under brave John Sedgwick.
From Personal Recollections of a Cavalryman With Custer's Michigan Cavalry Brigade in the Civil War by Kidd, James Harvey
"Do you honestly mean it when you say she is not an elderly ironsides with spectacles?"
From The Nest Builder by Hale, Beatrice Forbes-Robertson
With "his ironsides" and the Scottish horse he had driven the royal cavalry, under the earl of Newcastle, from their position on the left.
From The History of England from the First Invasion by the Romans to the Accession of King George the Fifth Volume 8 by Belloc, Hilaire
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