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

In a few vigorous strokes Wallace was across, hauled himself up to the sill of the door, and with his heavy battleaxe smote on the chains which held up the drawbridge.

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

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 Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)