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Definition of shillalah : Alt. of Shillelah

Synonyms:

shillelagh

Usage examples:

• We formed no intimacy with the Texans; indeed, we had no contact whatever with them, except that one day Roche thrashed two of them with his shillalah for ill- treating an old Indian. - "Monsieur Violet", Frederick Marryat.
• Armed with a whip, like an Irishman with his shillalah at a fair, I supposed he would keep it flourishing about his head and that he would be accompanied by a dog. - "Revisiting the Earth", James Langdon Hill.
• With a flashing display of white teeth, she came along swinging her stick, or whirling her shillalah, as Mrs. Belgrove put it, and seemed the embodiment of coarse, vigorous health. - "Red Money", Fergus Hume.