battleaxe
Example Sentences
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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
Antaeus went clad in the skin of a Maenalian bear, and wielding in his right hand a huge two-edged battleaxe.
From The Argonautica by R. C. (Robert Cooper) Seaton
With sword and battleaxe I can, I trust, hold my own with any man; but my brain is dull when it comes to hatching schemes.
From A Knight of the White Cross : a tale of the siege of Rhodes by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
