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Shillelah   Listen
noun
Shillelah, Shillalah  n.  (Written also shillaly, and shillely)  An oaken sapling or cudgel; any cudgel; so called from Shillelagh, a place in Ireland of that name famous for its oaks. (Irish)






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"Shillelah" Quotes from Famous Books



... gladdened their ears. The servant flung his whole stock of balsam on the beacon at once, causing a most portentous flame-burst, and sprang up with a wild 'hurroo!' wielding one half-burnt fagot a la shillelah about his head. ...
— Cedar Creek - From the Shanty to the Settlement • Elizabeth Hely Walshe

... not hurt, but kiss, the sole unshod, So soothly kind is Erin to her own! And one, at Hare and Hound, plays all alone,— For Phelim's gone to tend his step-dame's cow; Ah! Phelim's step-dame is a canker'd crone! Whilst other twain play at an Irish row, And, with shillelah small, break one ...
— The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood • Thomas Hood



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