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

With lance and battleaxe the chivalry of England strove to break the ranks of the Scotch, while with serried lines of spears, four deep, the Scotch held their own.

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

Here, at the further side, stood a huge man clad in rusty armour, who when he saw Oisín rushed upon him, silent and furious, and swinging a great battleaxe in his hand.

From The High Deeds of Finn and other Bardic Romances of Ancient Ireland by Reid, Stephen