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ironside

ironside \i"ron*side`\, n. a man of great strength and endurance, especially on who is brave.

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Ironside

name given to a man of great hardihood or bravery, c.1300, first applied to Edmund II, king of England (d.1016), later also to Oliver Cromwell and his troops. Old Ironsides as a nickname of U.S.S. "Constitution" dates from that ship's defeat of H.M.S. "Guerriere" on Aug. 19, 1812, in the War of 1812.

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ironside

n. One who is very strong and courageous.

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ironside

n. a man of great strength or bravery

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Ironside (1967 TV series)

Ironside is an American television crime drama that aired on NBC from 1967 to 1975. The show starred Raymond Burr as Robert T. Ironside, a consultant for the San Francisco Police who was paralyzed from the waist down after being shot in the line of duty. The character debuted on March 28, 1967, in a TV movie called "A Man Called Ironside". When the show was broadcast in the United Kingdom, it was initially under that same title. The show earned Burr six Emmy and two Golden Globe nominations.

Ironside was a production of Burr's Harbour Productions Unlimited in association with Universal Television.

Ironside

Ironside or Ironsides may refer to:

Ironside (cavalry)

The Ironsides were troopers in the Parliamentarian cavalry formed by English political leader Oliver Cromwell in the 17th century, during the English Civil War. The name came from "Old Ironsides", one of Cromwell's nicknames.

Ironside (2013 TV series)

Ironside is an American drama television series that premiered during the 2013–14 television season on NBC. It was a remake of the original television series Ironside, which ran from 1967 to 1975. It starred Blair Underwood as the title character, wheelchair-using cop Robert Ironside, the only character re-created from the original series. The remade "Ironside" was grittier and considerably more violent than the original, and the setting was changed from San Francisco to New York City.

The series debuted on October 2, 2013. Ratings and reviews were poor, and it was canceled on October 18 after only three episodes had aired.

Ironside (surname)

Ironside is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Adelaide Ironside (1831-1867), Australian artist
  • Christopher Ironside, British artist and designer
  • David Ironside, South African cricketer
  • Edmund Ironside, King of England during 1016
  • Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside, British general after the Russian Revolution as well as in the Second World War
  • Gilbert Ironside the elder (1588–1671), Bishop of Bristol
  • Gilbert Ironside the younger (1632–1701)
  • Harry A. Ironside, Bible teacher, preacher, and pastor
  • Isaac Ironside (1808–1870), British Chartist
  • Janey Ironside (1919–1979), Professor of fashion
  • Michael Ironside, Canadian character actor
  • Robert Ironside, New Zealand international footballer
  • Robert Ironside (businessman), Canadian businessman
  • Samuel Ironside (1814–1897), New Zealand missionary
  • Virginia Ironside, British journalist
  • Christopher Evans-Ironside, English/German composer and musician
  • Henry Bax-Ironside (1859–1929), British diplomat
Ironside (season 1)

This is a list of episodes from the first season of Ironside.

Ironside (season 2)

This is a list of episodes from the second season of Ironside.

Ironside (season 3)

This is a list of episodes from the third season of Ironside.

Ironside (season 5)

This is a list of episodes from the fifth season of Ironside.

Ironside (season 6)

This is a list of episodes from the sixth season of Ironside.

Ironside (season 7)

This is a list of episodes from the seventh season of Ironside.

Ironside (season 8)

This is a list of episodes from the eighth and final season of Ironside.

Usage examples of "ironside".

And then, when they were all safely at Ironside and father had begun to preach in the old stone church, which his great-great-grandfather, John Fincastle, pioneer, and his flock had built with their own hands, he had lost this charge also as soon as the second volume of his book had come from the press.

The dwelling stood slightly withdrawn from the village, on land that had belonged to the Fincastles ever since Ironside had been a part of the frontier and John Fincastle had led his human flock up from the Indian savannahs, running in wild grass and pea-vine, to the bowed shoulder of the mountain.

But years passed before they could assemble material for the Ironside church, with the floor of walnut puncheons, the high-backed pews, the stone stairways to the gallery.

All his life he had laboured in the field at Ironside, and he had built up his church here and founded the mission on Thunder Mountain.

It was only natural, Ada realized now, that Ironside should have been divided between relief over the removal of sin and reluctance to accept the burden of Toby, who would remain an idiot boy if he lived to be eighty.

Through the rustling leaves she could see the few scattered lights that still burned in Ironside and, flung far out into the silvery dusk of the fields, a single wavering spark in the hovel by the ravine.

She could not separate them in memory, or if she separated them, it was merely by the thought, Ralph wrote to me often then, or Ralph came back to Ironside, but I seldom saw him.

Though she was a walking skeleton when she reached Ironside, she had had the spirit, or the folly, to begin life again.

If you should find living in Ironside unbearable, go to Queenborough and take my name and wait for me.

To go back, not now, but some day when they had prospered and saved, and all the children in Ironside had grown up.

Several years before, when the Valley turnpike had gone to Teesdale from Doncaster instead of coming to Ironside, the old house had changed hands again at a forced sale, and a few months later Dr.

If he died in Ironside, they would be saved the trouble and cost of the journey.

Only in Ironside could he find the freedom to sink back into changeless beatitude, into nothing and everything.

He would love the summer in Ironside, and if he wins that scholarship, as he is sure to do, he will be away all next winter.

Sir John Dill, who had succeeded General Ironside in May, 1940, remained C.