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shillelagh
noun as in club
noun as in cudgel
noun as in night stick
noun as in walking stick
Weak matches
Example Sentences
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?
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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