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Iron Duke
Iron Duke
noun
- the. nickname of (1st Duke of) Wellington 1
Example Sentences
Iron Duke remained in contact with the pair back through the Channel and into the North Sea before handing over to a Dutch warship.
In the 16th century, the third duke, sometimes called the Iron Duke, was known for his military campaigns in the Eighty Years’ War.
“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.
The Iron Duke, she consequently informed the world, was bad in bed, possessing no merit for “ladies’ uses.”
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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