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  • noun historical A trooper in the Parliamentarian cavalry formed by English political leader Oliver Cromwell in the 17th century, during the English Civil War.

Etymologies

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iron +‎ side, from a nickname of Cromwell's: "Old Ironsides".

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Examples

  • Of course Ironside is not waging a war against the disabled: she simply said "life isn't a gift per se".

    Abortion and euthanasia: was Virginia Ironside right? Zoe Williams 2010

  • The acerbic Ironside is short-tempered, keenly observant, very intelligent and hell on wheels if you’ll permit a small pun as a boss.

    TVonDVD: Picket Fences, Masters of Horror: The Screwfly Solution, The Practice,The Fall Guy, Ironside 2007

  • Tune In 'Soul Bossa Nostra' featuring Ludacris, Naturally 7 and Rudy Currence 'Ironside' featuring Talib Kweli 'Strawberry Letter 23' featuring Akon I learned to play everything in the brass section — tuba, sousaphone, B-flat trombone.

    Whether It's Basie or Snoop, He Still Hears the Big Band Jim Fusilli 2010

  • Frank "Ironside" Gardner gloats "The circumstances of his capture are strange and potentially very embarrasing for the Pentagon" In that he was drunk.

    OPEN THREAD 2009

  • Brown ever showed up on 'Ironside'; in fact, I don't think Ed ever mentioned them.

    Archive 2009-01-11 Toby O'B 2009

  • Ed Brown serveD as the lynchpin between 'Ironside' and 'The Bold Ones: The New Doctors': in a two-part episode that crossed over from one show to the other, Ed was shot and could have ended up paralyzed if it was not for the medical skills of the doctors at the Craig Institute.

    Archive 2009-01-11 Toby O'B 2009

  • AMY BARNETT, "TEEN PEOPLE": I think that lawyer should be taken out and shot if he is responsible for some of these crappy remakes coming to the screen right now, and I hear he has his own production company that's actually going to do more remakes of shows like "F Troop," "Ironside," "Hart to Hart."

    CNN Transcript Aug 8, 2005 2005

  • On Wednesday Sapa issued a report quoting police as saying information indicated Deputy Minister Mrs Winnie Mandela had allegedly used her influence and position "to ensure (low-cost housing) contracts" for a company known as Professional Builders for areas such as Ironside at Vereeniging and Phola Park in exchange for financial gains.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1995

  • Ironside had just been to Poland, where he had visited military training centers and reviewed the war-readiness of Polish forces—one German newspaper called Ironside’s visit a “secret council of war.”

    Human Smoke Nicholson Baker 2008

  • Soon I might ride at the side of Eadmund the Atheling to try to stay the march of Swein through England; and many were the fights I saw with him, until I was the only one left of all the youths who had been my comrades at first, and Eadmund had won his name of "Ironside" in bravest hopeless struggle.

    King Olaf's Kinsman A Story of the Last Saxon Struggle against the Danes in the Days of Ironside and Cnut 1884

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