shillelagh

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ʃəˈleɪli/    美 /ʃəˈleɪli/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A wooden (traditionally blackthorn (sloe) wood) club ending with a large knob. Ireland
    — [T]he stem of a stout young oak or ash tree, into the end of which, where the roots had been rounded off, a quantity of molten lead was poured, making the shillelagh more formidable in such hands than a sword would have been – much harder to parry, and impossible to break.
  2. Any cudgel, whether or not of Irish origin.

词形变化

shillelaghs plural shillala alternative shillalah alternative shillelah alternative shillalagh alternative shillaly alternative shillely alternative

词汇关系

相关词
blackthorn

词源

From Irish sail éille (“shillelagh”, literally “cudgel of a thong”), altered to match the name of the village of Shillelagh (from Irish Síol Éalaigh (literally “descendants of Éalach”), because the forest near it provided wood from which such clubs could be made.
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