shillaly

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shillaly (plural shillalies)

  1. Alternative form of shillelagh
    • 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 71:
      These are used in everyday life. The lubras feel the effect of them, if the husbands are in an angry mood; the children suffer also, and perhaps deserve it! And in a free fight, the waddy, like an Irishman's shillaly, figures very prominently.