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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.

Definition 2024

Club

Club

See also: club

German

Alternative forms

  • Klub (used to be common for some decades, but is now becoming less frequent again)

Noun

Club m ‎(genitive Clubs, plural Clubs)

  1. club (association of members)
  2. club (nightclub, discotheque)

Hypernyms

Usage notes

Sense 2 is a recent secondary borrowing from English and not necessarily familiar to speakers born before 1970.

club

club

See also: Club

English

Noun

A law enforcement baton

club ‎(plural clubs)

  1. A heavy stick intended for use as a weapon or playthingWp.
    • 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 12, in The Mirror and the Lamp:
      There were many wooden chairs for the bulk of his visitors, and two wicker armchairs with red cloth cushions for superior people. From the packing-cases had emerged some Indian clubs, […], and all these articles […] made a scattered and untidy decoration that Mrs. Clough assiduously dusted and greatly cherished.
    1. An implement to hit the ball in some ballgames, e.g. golf.
  2. An association of members joining together for some common purpose, especially sports or recreation.
    • 1893, Walter Besant, The Ivory Gate, chapter III:
      At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors. […] In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.
    1. (archaic) The fees associated with belonging to such a club.
      • 1783, Benjamin Franklin:
        He can have no right to the benefits of Society, who will not pay his Club towards the Support of it.
  3. A joint charge of expense, or any person's share of it; a contribution to a common fund.
    • Roger L'Estrange (1616-1704)
      They laid down the club.
    • Samuel Pepys (1633-1703)
      We dined at a French house, but paid ten shillings for our part of the club.
  4. An establishment that provides staged entertainment, often with food and drink, such as a nightclub.
    She was sitting in a jazz club, sipping wine and listening to a bass player's solo.‎
  5. A black clover shape (♣), one of the four symbols used to mark the suits of playing cards.
    1. A playing card marked with such a symbol.
      I've got only one club in my hand.‎
  6. (humorous) Any set of people with a shared characteristic.
    You also hate Night Court?  Join the club.‎
    Michael stood you up?  Welcome to the club.‎

Synonyms

Hyponyms

  • chess club
  • sports club

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

club ‎(third-person singular simple present clubs, present participle clubbing, simple past and past participle clubbed)

  1. (transitive) to hit with a club.
    He clubbed the poor dog.
  2. (intransitive) To join together to form a group.
    • Dryden
      Till grosser atoms, tumbling in the stream / Of fancy, madly met, and clubbed into a dream.
  3. (intransitive, transitive) To combine into a club-shaped mass.
    a medical condition with clubbing of the fingers and toes
  4. (intransitive) To go to nightclubs.
    We went clubbing in Ibiza.
  5. (intransitive) To pay an equal or proportionate share of a common charge or expense.
    • Jonathan Swift
      The owl, the raven, and the bat / Clubbed for a feather to his hat.
  6. (transitive) To raise, or defray, by a proportional assessment.
    to club the expense
  7. (nautical) To drift in a current with an anchor out.
  8. (military) To throw, or allow to fall, into confusion.
    • 1876, Major-General G. E. Voyle and Captain G. De Saint-Clair-Stevenson, F.R.G.S., A Military Dictionary, Comprising Terms, Scientific and Otherwise, Connected with the Science of War, Third Edition, London: William Clowes & Sons, page 80:
      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.
  1. (transitive) To unite, or contribute, for the accomplishment of a common end.
    to club exertions
  2. (transitive, military) To turn the breech of (a musket) uppermost, so as to use it as a club.

Translations

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowing from English club.

Noun

club m ‎(plural clubs)

  1. club (association)
  2. (golf) club

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ʏp

Noun

club c ‎(plural clubs, diminutive clubje n)

  1. club, association
  2. (golf) club

French

Etymology

Borrowing from English club.

Pronunciation

  • (France) IPA(key): /klœb/
  • (Quebec) IPA(key): /klʏb/

Noun

club m ‎(plural clubs)

  1. club (association)
  2. (golf) club

Synonyms

  • (golf club): bâton (Quebec)

Italian

Etymology

Borrowing from English club.

Noun

club m ‎(invariable)

  1. club (association; golf implement)

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowing from English club.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kluβ/

Noun

club m ‎(plural clubs or clubes)

  1. club (association)

Synonyms

Derived terms

  • club de fans m
  • club nocturno m

Etymology

From English club

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /klʊp/

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