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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



... a particularly fine and complete Stamp Collector's Department—40 or more pages each month devoted to stamp club news, notes, articles on stamps and stamp issuing countries, department on precancels, new issues, and airmails, and general information. (HOBBIES, by the way, is the Official Organ of the ...
— Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Twenty-Fifth Annual Meeting • Northern Nut Growers Association
... "I established my Allotment-club, and my pig-clubs, and those little Concerts by the ladies of my own family, of which we have the last of the season this evening. They are a great success, for the people here are amazingly fond of music. But there is the early dinner-bell, and I have no need to talk ...
— Contributions to All The Year Round • Charles Dickens
... to still harder; and this double flogging continued, till a lass of Silverend, pitying the pitiful beadle thus suffering under the hands of the pitiless constable, joined the procession, and placing herself immediately behind the latter, seized him by his capillary club, and pulling him backwards by the same, slapt his face with a most Amazonian fury. This concatenation of events has taken up more of my paper than I intended it should, but I could not forbear to inform you how the beadle thrashed ...
— Selected English Letters (XV - XIX Centuries) • Various
... resentment. When once resentment is roused, it will expend its force on anything that turns up handy, as the man who has quarrelled with his wife about a question of a bonnet, will kick his dog for trying to follow him to the club as he leaves her. ...
— Post-Prandial Philosophy • Grant Allen
... sort of club I wanted. You see I had him by the shoulders and I could swing his heels free and easy like. Wal, I used him that way. For the next ten or fifteen minutes the only music in that place was the panting of Pete and the crash and smash of bottles. ...
— Deerfoot in The Mountains • Edward S. Ellis


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