shillalah

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He shook his flaming head regretfully at the deplorably lost condition of a country where the shillalah was unknown as a social institution If I wasn't tied up with this Valdez bunch I'd get out to-morrow, and sometimes I have half a mind to pull out anyhow.

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  • With this shillalah, he poked and whacked, until someone kicked most of the skin off his right shin The fight became less violent. —  054 - Ost
  • The handy weapon of the Irish was the shillalah, that of the Italian is the stiletto. —  Aliens or Americans?
  • Until we began hitting out with our little shillalah, nobody had ever dared venture a peep of disapproval. —  The Clarion
  • With a flashing display of white teeth, she came along swinging her stick, or whirling her shillalah, as Mrs. Belgrove put it, and seemed the embodiment of coarse, vigorous health Taking a sun-bath?" —  Red Money
  • In his hand he held a favorite shillalah, which he had brought with him from his native land, and with the end of which he occasionally poked the ribs of the oxen, with many Irish ejaculations, which no doubt alarmed the animals not a little. —  On the Pampas
 

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  1. Also shillelah, shillaly; said to be named from Shillelagh, a barony in County Wicklow, Ireland, famous for its oaks; literally ‘seed or descendants of Elach,’ from Irish siol, seed (= Welsh sileu, seedling; silio, spawn), + Elaigh, Elach.
 

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/ʃɪˈleɪlə/
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