Sentence:  I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields.... And thus we came by a circuitous route to Mohair,.... My client welcomed the judge […] and they disappeared together into the Ethiopian card-room, which was filled with the assegais and <WSD>exclamation point</WSD> shields Mr. Cooke had had made at the sawmill at Beaverton. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  An elongated shape like an exclamation point.