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Iron Duke

noun

  1. epithet of the first Duke of Wellington.


Iron Duke

noun

  1. the. nickname of (1st Duke of) Wellington 1
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Iron Duke remained in contact with the pair back through the Channel and into the North Sea before handing over to a Dutch warship.

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In the 16th century, the third duke, sometimes called the Iron Duke, was known for his military campaigns in the Eighty Years’ War.

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“Iron Duke” acted after a young, racist drifter armed with an AK-47 assault rifle shot up a schoolyard in Stockton, killing five Southeast Asian immigrant children.

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The Iron Duke, she consequently informed the world, was bad in bed, possessing no merit for “ladies’ uses.”

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The Daily Express has lamented that one Brexit critic was none other than the Duke of Wellington, a descendant of a British military hero, “the Iron Duke who helped defeat Napoleon and his French army.”

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