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1. WordNet® 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]
2. 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]
3. 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]
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