Any cudgel, whether or not of Irish origin.
It beats all your guns and your rifles, / For it goes off whene'er you desire, / And it's sure to hit just what it aims at, / For shillelaghs they never miss fire.
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(Ireland) A wooden (traditionally blackthorn (sloe) wood) club ending with a large knob.
[T]he stem of a stout young oak or ash tree, into the end of which, where the roots had been rounded off, a quantity of molten lead was poured, making the shillelagh more formidable in such hands than a sword would have been – much …
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