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Hercules' club
[From the club which Hercules is represented as bearing; see prec., sense 1.]
a. The name of a plant, Xanthoxylon Clava-Herculis; also, Aralia spinosa (Syd. Soc. Lex. 1886).
b. A kind of firework.
c. ‘A stick of unusual size and formidable appearance’ (Brewer).
1688Lond. Gaz. No. 2362/3 Rockets..Reporters, Hercules Club..with all manner of other Fire-works were discharged. 1882J. Smith Dict. Econ. Plants, Hercules' Club..of the Bean Caper family..Its wood is yellow, and is a useful timber. |