[SmokingJoe]

Battle-axe
Woman
A battle-axe is a formidable woman – aggressive, domineering and forceful. The prime example was the militant temperance activist Carrie Nation, who actually wielded a hatchet and made it her symbol, living in Hatchet Hall and publishing a magazine called The Hatchet

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Mary Todd Lincoln didn’t do too badly herself in this category. Story she had run Old Abe out of the house with a broom in a fit of rage.