shillelagh
noun
a cudgel, traditionally of blackthorn or oak.
shillala,
-
a variation of
shillelagh.
Example Sentences
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A gigantic figure—a seven-foot machine for turning potatoes in human nature—wrapt up in an immense great-coat, and urging on two starved ponies, with dreadful imprecations and uplifted shillala.
From Peter Plymley's Letters, and selected essays by Sydney Smith
