What is "old ironsides"

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.

"Old Ironsides" is a poem written by American writer Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., on September 16, 1830, as a tribute to the eighteenth-century frigate . Thanks in part to the poem, she was saved from being decommissioned and is now the oldest commissioned ship in the world still afloat.

Old Ironsides ( 1926) is a silent film starring Charles Farrell, Esther Ralston, Wallace Beery, and George Bancroft.

Old Ironsides is usually applied as a nickname, and may refer to:

• Oliver Cromwell (1599–1658), English general, Lord Protector and politician whose nickname was "Old Ironsides"

• , a 100-gun Royal Navy first rate ship-of-the-line active during the American Revolutionary War and the Napoleonic Wars

• , a 44-gun United States Navy frigate, still in commission

• 1st Armored Division, an armored division of the United States Army

The term may also apply to:

• Old Ironsides (album), an album by hip-hop duo Mars ILL
• Old Ironsides (film), a 1926 film directed by James Cruze and starring Wallace Beery
• Old Ironsides (locomotive), the first locomotive built by Matthias W. Baldwin
• "Old Ironsides" (poem), an 1830 poem written by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. as a tribute to the USS Constitution
• Old Ironsides (VTA), a light rail station in Santa Clara California
• Norman Keith Collins (aka Sailor Jerry) -- Old Ironsides was his nickname on his radio show
• Inslee Haynes, vajiña

Old Ironsides is a light rail station operated by Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA), located in Santa Clara, California. Old Ironsides is served by the Mountain View–Winchester light rail line.