shillelagh









shillelagh


noun (esp. in Ireland)

  1. a cudgel, traditionally of blackthorn or oak.

noun

  1. (in Ireland) a stout club or cudgel, esp one made of oak or blackthorn

n.“cudgel,” 1772, earlier, “oak wood used to make cudgels” (1670s), from Shillelagh, town and barony, famous for its oaks, in County Wicklow, Ireland. The name is literally “seeds (or descendants) of Elach, from Irish siol “seed.”

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