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Shillelagh
Shillelagh meaning
A wooden (traditionally blackthorn (sloe) wood) club ending with a large knob. | Any cudgel, whether or not of Irish origin.
Example sentences (12)
Is it about my shillelagh?
Notably, the XM81 was able to fire not only conventional High Explosive Anti-Tank rounds but was also designed with the MGM-51 Shillelagh anti-tank missile in mind.
The Jeweled Shillelagh rivalry, which began in 1926, is an annual save the date affair.
He feels there is uneasiness about some aspects of Irish culture that – the shillelagh being an example – are deliberately let drift from memory.
Sheamus looks incensed at Kaiser and goes to chase him but Kaiser has the shillelagh and wears out Sheamus with a flurry of stick shots.
Think you know your shamrock from a shillelagh?
Because the system was so advanced, the development of the Shillelagh was fraught with problems.
Dave Finlay was often aided in his matches by a midget known mainly as Hornswoggle while in WWE, who hid under the ring and gave a shillelagh to Finlay to use on his opponent.
Shillelagh was considered equal to the later BGM-71 TOW anti-tank wire-guided missile first produced in 1970 by the U.S, which could not be fired from the gun but had a simpler guidance system.
Some missiles may have additional propulsion from another source at launch; for example, the V1 was launched by a catapult, and the MGM-51 Shillelagh was fired out of a tank gun (using a smaller charge than would be used for a shell).
The Sheridan's gun was a low-velocity weapon suitable in the assault role, but with the addition of the Shillelagh missile could double in the anti-tank role as well.
The Shillelagh was considerably larger than a conventional round, so only a small number could be carried.