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Ironside|ˈaɪənsaɪd|
Also (sing.) Ironsides.
1. sing. A name given to a man of great hardihood or bravery; spec. in Eng. Hist. (Ironside) to Edmund II king of England (a.d. 1016), and (also Ironsides) to Oliver Cromwell; also, independently or transf., to other persons.
In the case of Cromwell the appellation was a nickname of Royalist origin.
1297R. Glouc. (Rolls) 6084 Is eldoste sone, Edmond yrene syde, Vor he was hardi and god kniȝt, at hom he let abide. 1350–70Eulog. Histor. (Rolls) III. v. xci. 24 Nomen primi est Edmundus, vocabulo Irenside [v.r. Yrensyde]. a1635Corbet Poems, To Ld. Mordant 154 One [of the guard at Windsor] I remember with a grisly beard,..This Ironside tooke hold, and sodainly Hurled mee..Some twelve foote by the square. 1644Mercurius Civicus 19–26 Sept., Monday we had intelligence that Lieutenant General Cromwell alias Ironside, for that title was given him by Prince Rupert after his defeat neare York [etc.]. 1645Relation of Victory on Naseby Field in Eng. Hist. Rev. (1899) 17 News being brought them..that Iron⁓sides was comming to joyne with the Parliament's Army. 1647Trapp Comm. Acts xix. 9 So indefatigable a preacher was Paul, a very..iron-sides. 1660Burney κέρδ. Δῶρον (1661) 97 Henrie the 8..who appeared an ironsides against the Principalities of darknesse. 1663Flagellum or O. Cromwell vi. in Harl. Misc. (1753) I. 275 Hence he [Cromwell] acquired that terrible Name of Ironsides. 1898Westm. Gaz. 30 Mar. 1/3 Mrs. Parnell..was her father's child, and he had won for himself the appellation of Iron⁓sides, as a testimony to the strength of his character and the resolution with which he pursued the British Fleet in those days of trouble between Great Britain and America.
2. pl. (Ironsides.) Applied to Cromwell's troopers in the Civil War; hence allusively in later uses. The sing. is sometimes used of one member of such a force: a Puritan warrior; a devout soldier of the Puritan type.
As applied to Cromwell's regiment it may have been orig. a possessive, Ironside's men: cf. the Queen's, Prince of Wales's, and similar modern titles of regiments. See also Lieut.-Col. Ross Oliver Cromwell and his Ironsides 19.
1648Resol. King's subj. Cornwall 2 Aug. (in Thomasson Tracts CCCLXXX. No. 18. 3), The soldiers shouted saying ‘that Cromwell and his Iron sides were now taken’. 1648Let. 8 Aug. in Moderate (ibid. CCCLXXXII. No. 21 E ij), These Ironsides advancing make them search every corner for security. 1667Lilly Life & Times (1774) 144 Sir Thomas Fairfax's brigade of horse, and Oliver Cromwell's ironsides; for Cromwell's horse in those times usually wore headpieces, back and breastplates of iron. 1859Mowbray Thomson Story of Cawnpore iii. 48, I was there also when Havelock's Ironsides gave their entertainment, shattering to powder all that was fragile. 1889Dict. Nat. Biog. XVII. 111/1 With the dashing spirit of the cavalier the early Punjab officer united something of the earnestness of the Ironside. 1891Gardiner Hist. Civil War III. lxiv. 432 It was at Pontefract (1648 August) that Cromwell's men were first called by the nickname of Ironsides, a term which had hitherto been appropriated to himself. It was not..an epithet which came into general use for some time to come.
3. A ship plated with iron; an ironclad.
1861Times 13 Mar. 9/3 Our own fleet of ironsides comprises two first-rates actually launched, and one on the stocks. |