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Webster 1913 Edition

Club

Club

(klŭb)
,
Noun.
[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.
Shakespeare
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 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)
,
Verb.
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.

Club

,
Verb.
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.

Webster 1828 Edition

Club

CLUB

, n.
1.
Properly, a stick or piece or wood with one end thicker and heavier than the other, and no larger than can be wielded with the hand.
2.
A thick heavy stick, that may be managed with the hand, and used for beating, or defense. In early ages, a club was a principal instrument of war and death; a fact remarkably perpetuated in the accounts which history relates of the achievements of Hercules with his club. Plin. Lib. 7. Ca. 56. This use of the club was the origin of the scepter, as a badge of royalty.
3.
The name of one of the suits of cards; so named from its figure.
4.
A collection or assembly of men; usually a select number of friends met for social or literary purposes. Any small private meeting of persons.
5.
A collection of expenses the expenses of a company, or unequal expenses of individuals, united for the purpose of finding the average or proportion of each individual. Hence the share of each individual in joint expenditure is called his club, that is, his proportion of a club, or joint charge.
6.
Contribution; joint charge.

CLUB

, v.i.
1.
To join, as a number of individuals, to the same end; to contribute separate powers to one end, purpose or effect.
Till grosser atoms, tumbling in the stream
Of fancy, madly met, and clubbed into a dream.
2.
To pay an equal proportion of a common reckoning or charge.

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