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Webster 1913 Edition

Shillelah

{

Shil-la′lah

,

Shil-le′lah

}

,

Noun.

An oaken sapling or cudgel; any cudgel; – so called from Shillelagh, a place in Ireland of that name famous for its oaks.

[Irish]

[Written also

shillaly

, and

shillely

.]