1.
[syn: Cromwell, Oliver Cromwell, Ironsides]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Ironside \I"ron*side`\, Ironsides \I"ron*sides`\, prop. n.
1. A nickname for Oliver Cromwell.
[PJC]
2. A nickname for Edmund II of England. --RHUD
[PJC]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Ironsides \I"ron*sides"\, 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.
[PJC]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Ironsides
n 1: English general and statesman who led the parliamentary
army in the English Civil War (1599-1658) [syn: Cromwell,
Oliver Cromwell, Ironsides]