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Definition of Old ironsides
1. Noun. A United States 44-gun frigate that was one of the first three naval ships built by the United States; it won brilliant victories over British frigates during the War of 1812 and is without doubt the most famous ship in the history of the United States Navy; it has been rebuilt and is anchored in the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Old Ironsides
Literary usage of Old ironsides
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography by Historical Society of Pennsylvania (1887)
"MW BALDWIN'S "old ironsides." BY JOHN T. MONTGOMERY. Facing page 387 of Vol. VI.
of the PENNSYLVANIA MAGAZINE is what purports to be a drawing of Baldwin's ..."
2. Poems of American History by Burton Egbert Stevenson (1908)
"old ironsides [September 14, 1830] AT, tear her tattered ensign down! Long has
it waved on high, And many an eye has danced to see That banner in the sky; ..."
3. The Chief American Poets: Selected Poems by Bryant, Poe, Emerson, Longfellow by Curtis Hidden Page (1905)
"On a scrap of paper, with i lead pencil, he rapidly shaped the impetuous stanzas
of • old ironsides,' and sent them to the Daily Advertiser, of Boston. ..."
4. Historic Poems and Ballads by Rupert Sargent Holland (1912)
"XLIII old ironsides THE frigate Constitution, which had figured valiantly in the
history of the United States navy, and had won the famous sea-fight with ..."
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