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Club   /kləb/   Listen
noun
Club  n.  
1.
A heavy staff of wood, usually tapering, and wielded with the hand; a weapon; a cudgel. "But make you ready your stiff bats and clubs; Rome and her rats are at the point of battle."
2.
Any card of the suit of cards having a figure like the trefoil or clover leaf. (pl.) The suit of cards having such figure.
3.
An association of persons for the promotion of some common object, as literature, science, politics, good fellowship, etc.; esp. an association supported by equal assessments or contributions of the members. "They talked At wine, in clubs, of art, of politics." "He (Goldsmith) was one of the nine original members of that celebrated fraternity which has sometimes been called the Literary Club, but which has always disclaimed that epithet, and still glories in the simple name of the Club."
4.
A joint charge of expense, or any person's share of it; a contribution to a common fund. "They laid down the club." "We dined at a French house, but paid ten shillings for our part of the club."
Club law, government by violence; lynch law; anarchy.
Club root (Bot.), a disease of cabbages, by which the roots become distorted and the heads spoiled.
Club topsail (Naut.), a kind of gaff topsail, used mostly by yachts having a fore-and-aft rig. It has a short "club" or "jack yard" to increase its spread.


verb
Club  v. t.  (past & past part. clubbed; pres. part. clubbing)  
1.
To beat with a club.
2.
(Mil.) To throw, or allow to fall, into confusion. "To club a battalion implies a temporary inability in the commanding officer to restore any given body of men to their natural front in line or column."
3.
To unite, or contribute, for the accomplishment of a common end; as, to club exertions.
4.
To raise, or defray, by a proportional assesment; as, to club the expense.
To club a musket (Mil.), to turn the breach uppermost, so as to use it as a club.


Club  v. i.  
1.
To form a club; to combine for the promotion of some common object; to unite. "Till grosser atoms, tumbling in the stream Of fancy, madly met, and clubbed into a dream."
2.
To pay on equal or proportionate share of a common charge or expense; to pay for something by contribution. "The owl, the raven, and the bat, Clubbed for a feather to his hat."
3.
(Naut.) To drift in a current with an anchor out.





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"Club" Quotes from Famous Books



... but as yet their prowess was limited to drunken brawls and faction-fights; to upsetting old women at their work, levying blackmail from quiet chapmen on the high road, or bringing back in triumph, sword in hand and club on shoulder, their leader Hereward from some duel which his insolence ...
— Hereward, The Last of the English • Charles Kingsley
... a great gentleman, and he turned up his nose at that rabble rout. At the battle of Grandson, sire, he cried: 'Men of the cannon! Fire on the villains!' and he swore by Saint-George. But Advoyer Scharnachtal hurled himself on the handsome duke with his battle-club and his people, and when the glittering Burgundian army came in contact with these peasants in bull hides, it flew in pieces like a pane of glass at the blow of a pebble. Many lords were then slain by low-born knaves; and Monsieur de Chateau-Guyon, the greatest seigneur in Burgundy, was found dead, ...
— Notre-Dame de Paris - The Hunchback of Notre Dame • Victor Hugo
... suffering, and physical relief was instant. As the musician proceeded the internal disorder yielded gradually to the external and finally passed away entirely, leaving him so far from prostrated that by one A.M. he was out of bed and actually girding himself with a shotgun and an Indian Club to go upstairs for a physical ...
— The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VI. (of X.) • Various
... inevitable, I suppose," Gertrude wrote. "I expected it. I was almost certain that Mother would want to live in Scarford. Mrs. Black has been telling her all summer about society and club life and what she calls 'woman's opportunity,' and Mother has come to believe that Scarford is Paradise. You will have to go, I think, Daddy dear. Perhaps it is just as well. Mother won't be satisfied until she has tried it, and perhaps, after she has tried it, she ...
— Cap'n Dan's Daughter • Joseph C. Lincoln
... trunk of an oak tree. His mouth was as large as a cave, and from it and his nostrils came forth fire and flame like that from the mountain of Vesuvius. Although his huge eyes were closed, flashes of lightning seemed to shoot from beneath the lids. At his side was an iron club as large as a steeple. About him stood trembling old women ...
— King Arthur and His Knights • Maude L. Radford


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