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.
“music is either named Sunny Day or Everybody Grab Your Shillelagh 'Cause We 'Bout to do "Da Tom Selleck" and you don't get an inbetween”
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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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