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

Their black-sailed ships stood high out of the water, prow and stern ending in the head and tail of some strange animal, while their long beards, their loose shirts, and battleaxe made them conspicuous.

From A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole by Synge, M. B. (Margaret Bertha)

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