Fashioned from thorny blackthorn wood, I sound like an agile relay race, yet Irish wanderers carry me as both a supportive walking cane and a bruising cudgel. What traditional club am I?
A shillelagh
Phonetic wordplay on 'shillelagh' (sounds vaguely like 'relay') and its historical role as an Irish walking stick and fighting cudgel.
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