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shillelagh

/shuh-ley-lee, -luh/US // ʃəˈleɪ li, -lə //UK // (ʃəˈleɪlə, -lɪ, Irish ʃɪˈleːlə) //

碎裂旗,碎纸片,碎玻璃,碎石

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    • : a cudgel, traditionally of blackthorn or oak.

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Examples

  • Saying which, he flourished his shillelagh before the slipper merchant's face, and then gave him a smart tap on his head.

  • The shillelagh was not a mere stick picked up for a few pence, or cut casually out of the common hedge.

  • The shillelagh was then a beautiful, tough, formidable weapon, and when tipped with an iron ferrule was quite ready for action.

  • They wove no mild sort of halo for the head of a shillelagh-flourishing Whitechapel Countess descended from the writer and doer.

  • His bludgeon, or—considering his present connection—may we say his shillelagh?