Ironsides

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  • iron-sided: work boots
  • Old Ironsides: nickname of Oliver Cromwell
  • ironsides: from the above, the nickname for Parliamentary cavalry during the English Civil War
  • Old Ironsides: bicname from American frigate U.S.S. Constitution
  • Edmund Ironside: Anglo-Saxon king (ca. 980 – 1016), who led the resistance against the Viking king Canute