battleaxe

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When we think of comedy and marriage, we probably think of “’er indoors” jokes: all those Les Dawson-era gags about henpecked husbands and battleaxe in-laws.

From The Guardian • Sep. 3, 2016

Some of his most striking imagery was reserved for Margaret Thatcher, variously depicted during her premiership as a battleaxe, a blind automaton and a bloody-fanged pterodactyl.

From BBC • Jan. 29, 2013

But the performance everyone on set is talking about is Vanessa Redgrave's: she plays Volumnia, the mother who raised Coriolanus as warrior for Rome – more nuanced and less of a battleaxe than is customary.

From The Guardian • May 6, 2010

And raising his dreaded weapon, the mighty battleaxe with its lance-like shaft, he stepped to the head of the "wedge," Behind him Aligern, his cousin, and old Hildebrand.

From A Struggle for Rome, v. 3 by Dahn, Felix

On horseback with mace or battleaxe it is mainly a question of sheer strength, and though you are very strong there are others who are as strong as you.

From In Freedom's Cause : a Story of Wallace and Bruce by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)