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shillelagh

noun as in cudgel

noun as in night stick

noun as in walking stick

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Example Sentences

There are fleas and chamber pots and thumbed noses and a St. Patrick’s Day picnic that — hold on to your shillelagh! — devolves into a drunken brawl.

He celebrated the nearly perfect performance by putting his hands on a shillelagh.

He celebrated the nearly perfect performance by putting his hands on a shillelagh.

The past month I’ve been staring down the shillelagh of an actual, real holiday.

Dan Donovan began trying to chase the three men from their house, and that’s when he grabbed his grandfather’s shillelagh - an antique Irish walking stick propped in the corner of the couple’s dining room.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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