Crossword clues for shillelagh
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"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."
Wiktionary
n. 1 A wooden (especially oaken) club ending with a large knob. 2 Any cudgel.
WordNet
n. a cudgel made of hardwood (usually oak or blackthorn) [syn: shillalah]
Wikipedia
The word shillelagh can mean:
- Shillelagh (club), a type of hand weapon
- Shillelagh, County Wicklow, a town in Ireland
- The MGM-51 Shillelagh missile
- Shillelagh, the code name for Source Mage GNU/Linux 0.5
- It's the Same Old Shillelagh, an Irish song
- Shillelagh cryptography, an NSA Suite A (Classified) Cryptographic Algorithm
In sport:
- Jeweled Shillelagh, a trophy associated with the Notre Dame–USC football rivalry
- Shillelagh Trophy, a trophy associated with the Notre Dame–Purdue football rivalry
A shillelagh ( or ; , "thonged willow") or blackthorn stick is a wooden walking stick and club or cudgel, typically made from a stout knotty stick with a large knob at the top, that is associated with Ireland and Irish folklore.
Shillelagh is a barony in County Wicklow, Republic of Ireland.
Usage examples of "shillelagh".
He was the only Irish Simonite, and relished the similarity between the cudgel and shillelagh.
They want Irish dancers, shillelaghs, colleens saying top of the mornin' to them.
Any time thereafter that the mule balked, Valentine just brandished his leafy shillelagh, imprecating against it in the glottal nonsense that worked on the recalcitrant beast.
Several types of these have been noted: silver-headed, Welsh thumbstick, mahogany handled, ivory handled, shillelagh, bamboo-cane.