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.
Dryden.
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.
Swift.
3. (Naut.) To drift in a current
with an anchor out.
Club (klŭb), n. [Cf. Icel.
klubba, klumba, club, klumbufōir a
clubfoot, SW. klubba club, Dan. klump lump,
klub a club, G. klumpen clump, kolben club,
and E. clump.] 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.
Shak.
2. [Cf. the Spanish name bastos, and
Sp. baston staff, club.] 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.
Tennyson.
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.
Macaulay.
4. A joint charge of expense, or any
person's share of it; a contribution to a common fund.
They laid down the club.
L'Estrange.
We dined at a French house, but paid ten shillings
for our part of the club.
Pepys.
Club law, government by violence; lynch
law; anarchy. Addison. -
Club moss (Bot.), an evergreen
mosslike plant, much used in winter decoration. The best know
species is Lycopodium clavatum, but other Lycopodia
are often called by this name. The spores form a highly
inflammable powder. -- 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.
Club (klŭb), v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Clubbed (klŭbd);
p. pr. & vb. n. 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.
Farrow.
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.