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• n  a sharp-tongued domineering wife
• n  a broadax used as a weapon

• As the Scottish host stared stupefied, Bruce lightly eluded the lance and then brought his battle-axe down with such force that the English knight was split from skull to saddle.
• First, Shirley's mother (Margaret Dumont, that grand battle-axe of Marx Brothers fame) warns her about the high cost of scruples.
• Gresham was an assertive "battle-axe" (Lewis' term) whose brassiness embarrassed his donnish cronies.

• battle-ax

Quotes

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• Jon Stewart in National Post
  The Toronto-sprung sidekick to Jon Stewart tells the magazine: "I'm going to be the old battle-axe. They may have to pry my cold dead hands off the microphone."