ironsides

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: i=ron=sides

CIDE DICTIONARY

ironsides, prop. n. 

•  A nickname for Oliver Cromwell.  [PJC]
•  A nickname for Edmund II of England.  [PJC]

ironsides, 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.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

ironsides, n. a man of great bravery, esp. (as pl.) Cromwell's troopers in the English Civil War.