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- noun Plural form of
shillelagh .
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Examples
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The prohibition on nunchuks goes way beyond NYC, as do prohibitions on switchblades, sword canes, belt-buckle knives, and shillelaghs.
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Oh, in the name of Saint Patrick, banish the snakes of ignorance from the Isle of our Incertitude and tell us, like a good chap, before the Guinness takes hold and we fall upon each other with shillelaghs and bring the question to decision in the time-honored way which this day itself sanctifies.
The Volokh Conspiracy » European Languages Outside Europe 2010
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Since the late Victorian/early Edwardian era was the heyday of the walking stick, the claim that a single gentleman, skilled in bartitsu, could beat away a band of ruffians armed with “cudgels, knives, shillelaghs, bonkers, batons, and even truncheons,” was immensely appealing.
The Martial Art of Sherlock Holmes | Edwardian Promenade 2010
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The prohibition on nunchuks goes way beyond NYC, as do prohibitions on switchblades, sword canes, belt-buckle knives, and shillelaghs.
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It's the hoary old "conversation with a taxicab driver" story, a terrible reportorial habit that's ordinarily beaten out of reporters by editors, with shillelaghs!
BP Sends PR Professionals To Gulf Coast To Pretend To Be Journalists 2010
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Oh, in the name of Saint Patrick, banish the snakes of ignorance from the Isle of our Incertitude and tell us, like a good chap, before the Guinness takes hold and we fall upon each other with shillelaghs and bring the question to decision in the time-honored way which this day itself sanctifies.liamascorcaighQuote
The Volokh Conspiracy » European Languages Outside Europe 2010
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Men in one part of the city wore bowler hats and carried silver-knobbed canes; men just a block away wore green and carried shillelaghs.
Double Blind 2006
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Men in one part of the city wore bowler hats and carried silver-knobbed canes; men just a block away wore green and carried shillelaghs.
Double Blind 2006
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Men in one part of the city wore bowler hats and carried silver-knobbed canes; men just a block away wore green and carried shillelaghs.
Double Blind 2006
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Once used for fighting, the sticks, or shillelaghs, provide sturdy, lightweight support for hikers.
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