Club sb.

Forms: 3–6 clubbe, (3 clibbe), 4 klubbe, clob(e, 4–5 clobbe, 5 clobb, 5–8 clubb, (7 Sc. glub), 6– club. [ME. clubbe, clobbe corresp. to (and probably ad.) ON. klubba (Sw. klubba, klubb, Norw., Da. klubbe, klub), assimilated form of klumba; f. the same root as CLUMP q.v. Cf. ON. klumbu-, klubbu-fótr, Norw. klumpfod, Sw. klumpfotad, Ger. klumpfusz, Eng. club-foot(ed. The history of branch III is obscure: the theory is that it came immediately from the verb, and that the latter was formed from branch I of the sb. But senses 5 and 6 (the only ones whence this development could start) have not yet been found early enough to account for the great extension which branch III attained in the 17th c.]

  I.  A thick stick, and related senses.

  1.  A heavy stick or staff for use as a weapon, thin enough at one end to be grasped with the hand, and increasing in thickness and weight towards the other end; also a special form for use in athletic exercises, generally called Indian clubs.

c. 1205.  Lay., 20968. Alle þa heorede-cnauen, mid clibben heo a-qualden. Ibid., 21504. Mid clubben [c. 1275 clubbes] swiðe græte.

c. 1320.  Sir Beues, 2511. His clob was … A lite bodi of an ok.

  α.  c. 1325.  E. E. Allit. P., B. 1348. He cleches to a gret klubbe & knokkes hem to peces.

a. 1400.  Sir Perc., 2018. Ane iryne clobe takes he.

1490.  Caxton, Eneydos, xlviii. 141. The geaunte bare a clubbe.

1552.  Huloet, Clubbe of leade, plumbata.

1600.  Shaks., A. Y. L., IV. i. 98. Troilous had his braines dash’d out with a Grecian club.

1684.  Bunyan, Pilgr., II. 110. The Giant mist but little of all-to-breaking Mr. Great-heart’s Scull with his Club.

1815.  Elphinstone, Acc. Caubul (1842), I. 345. Another exercise is whirling a heavy club round the head, in a way that requires the exertion of the whole body.

  fig.  1579.  Fulke, Heskins’ Parl., 89. Howe soudenly hath M. Heskins forgotten the strong clubbe of his Logike.

  b.  Used as the symbol of rude physical force: cf. d, and CLUB-LAW.

1606.  Hieron, Wks., I. 63. To resume their old argument ‘from the clubs.’

1647.  Ballad, Penit. Traytor, xxvii. (Tracts & Broadsides, King’s Libr. Brit. Mus.). Thus Law and Equity, in awe were keept here, And Clubs were taught how to controule the Scepter.

  † c.  Prentices and clubs: the rallying cry of the London apprentices. Obs.

1548.  Hall, Chron., Hen. VIII., 9. All the young men … cryed prentyses and clubbes. Then out at euery doore came clubbes and weapons, and the aldermen fled.

1591.  Shaks., 1 Hen. VI., I. iii. 84. Ile call for Clubs, if you will not away.

1604.  Dekker, Honest Wh., I. Wks. 1873, II. 64. Sfoot, clubs, clubs, prentices, downe with em, Ah you rogues, strike a Citizen in ’s shop?

1822.  Scott, Nigel, I. i. 27.

  † d.  Clubs are trump: physical force is to rule the day or to decide the matter; a punning allusion to sense 8. Also As sure as a club.

1584.  R. Scot, Discov. Witchcr., IV. ix. 66. His prophesie fell out as sure as a club.

1588.  Greene, Pandosto (1843), 27. Taking up a cudgel … sware solemnly that she would make clubs trump if hee brought any bastard brat within her dores.

1607.  W. S., Puritan, in Malone, Shaks. Supp., II. 574 (N.). Ay, I knew, by their shuffling, clubs would be trumps.

a. 1640.  Day, Peregr. Schol. (1881), 55. He is his owne as sure as a clubb.

  † e.  A heavy, clumsy fellow; a clown. Obs.

1542.  Udall, Erasm. Apoph., 167 a. The fair flatte truthe that the vplandishe or homely and playn clubbes of the countree dooen vse.

[1818.  Todd, s.v. Club, An old term for a booby. Grose under Hertfordshire clubs and clouted shoon.]

  2.  A stick or bat used in various games of ball; esp. the stick with a crooked and thickened head, used in golf [= Du. kolf club, bat] and similar games; a hockey-stick.

c. 1450.  Nominale, in Wr.-Wülcker, 738. (Nomina Ludorum) Hec pila, a balle; Hoc pedum, a clubbe [cf. 666 cambok].

1552.  Huloet, Clubbe croked at the one end, Vncinus, Vncus, Vngustus.

a. 1614.  J. Melvill, Diary, 14. Teached to handle the bow for archerie, the glub for goff.

c. 1625.  MS. Harl. 6391, in Strutt, Sports & Past., II. iii. § 14. The prince [Henry] lifted up his goff-club to strike the ball.

1800.  A. Carlyle, Autobiog. (1860), 343. To bring golf clubs and balls.

1801.  Strutt, Sports & Past., II. iii. § 14. A club or bat.

1889.  A. Lang, in Daily News, 30 April, 4/8. Golf clubs … are like crooked sticks, the ball being hit from the face of the crook.

  † 3.  A staff or baton used as an official and restrictive ‘pass.’ Obs.

1612.  Brinsley, Lud. Lit., xxx. 300. The shrewdest boyes, who vse to waite for the club, and watch their times.

a. 1697.  Aubrey, in Thoms, Anecd. & Traditions (1839), 94. In my father’s time they had a Clubbe (fustis) at the schoole-doore; and when they desired leave exeundi foras (two went together still) they carried the clubbe.

  4.  The butt-end of a gun.

1724.  De Foe, Mem. Cavalier (1840), 66. With the clubs of their muskets [they] made a most dreadful slaughter.

  5.  transf. Any club-shaped structure or organ; a knob; a bunch; a gradually thickened and rounded end.

1707.  Curios. in Husb. & Gard., 286. Upon this Column is a little Club, called the Hammer of the Flower.

1802.  Bingley, Anim. Biog. (1813), III. 122. The antennæ are club-shaped; the club perfoliate.

1833.  Marryat, P. Simple, v. A nose which had a red club to it.

1878.  C. R. Conder, Tent Work Pal., II. 54. Tall spires of asphodel and clubs of snapdragon.

  6.  A club-shaped knot or tail in which the hair was worn at the back; fashionable in the second half of the 18th c. Hence club-pigtail, -wig.

1785–95.  Wolcott (P. Pindar), Lousiad, II. Wks. I. 240. Curl, club, and pig-tail, all sal go to pot.

1786.  Mackenzie, in Lounger, No. 89, ¶ 8. Their commentaries on walking boots, riding slippers, clubs, buckles and buttons.

1837.  New Monthly Mag., XLIX. 550. Pig-tails and ‘knockers’ superseded the ponderous ‘clubs.’

1850.  G. P. R. James, Old Oak Chest, II. 103. What used formerly to be called a club, otherwise a very thick pigtail, hanging some four inches down his back.

1886.  S. Longfellow, Life Longf., I. ii. 19. A … gentleman … wearing … the old-style dress … his hair tied behind in a club, with black ribbon.

  7.  Hort. A disease in cabbages or turnips in which an excrescence forms at the base of the stem; club-root; cf. CLUBBING vbl. sb. 2.

1846.  Baxter, Libr. Pract. Agric., I. 142. An insect which … insinuates itself into the roots of all the brassica tribe, and causes a disease, usually called the club.

  II.  In cards.

  8.  pl. The cards forming one of the four suits, distinguished by the conventional representation of a trefoil leaf in black; in sing. a club-card, a card of this suit.

  [A translation of the Spanish name basto, or It. bastone (see BASTO, BASTON), the ‘club’ figured on Spanish cards. The current English figure is taken from the French, where the name is trèfle, trefoil.]

1563.  Foxe, A. & M., 1298. The beste cote carde beside in the bunche, yea thoughe it were the Kyng of Clubbes.

1593.  Munday, Def. Contraries, 49. The inuenter of the Italian Cardes … put the Deniers or monyes, and the Bastons or clubs in combate togither.

1600.  Rowlands, Lett. Humours Blood, Sat. III. 58. The Knaue of Clubbes he any time can burne, And finde him in his boosome, for his turne.

1611.  Cotgr., Treffle, also, a Club at Cards.

1712–4.  Pope, Rape Lock, III. 79. Clubs, Diamonds, Hearts, in wild disorder seen.

1784.  Cowper, Task, IV. 218.

1801.  Strutt, Sports & Past., IV. ii. 285, note. The suit of clubs upon the Spanish cards is not the trefoil, but positively clubs, or cudgels.

  III.  A combination, association.

  [This group of senses is closely connected with the vb.; but the evidence does not make certain what was the exact course of development. In particular, it does not appear whether a club in senses 13–15 was, in its origin, merely a knot or association of persons, or a ‘clubbing’ of the expenses of an entertainment, or of contributions towards it: see the verb senses 4–10, where the earliest example quoted (in 9) is connected with the joint defrayal of expenses. The order here followed is therefore merely provisional.]

  † 9.  Combination or union into one mass; aggregate, mass. Obs.

1664.  Power, Exp. Philos., II. 94. The difference of the Mercurial Cylinder may arise … from the club and combination of all these causes joined together.

1674.  N. Fairfax, Bulk & Selv., 139. This hord of restlesness is evenly dealt out amongst the sundry Clubs and Cantreds of bodies.

  † 10.  A combination of contributions to make up a total sum, e.g., to defray the expense of an entertainment. Obs.

1659–60.  Pepys, Diary, 24 Feb. A very handsome supper at Mr. Hill’s chambers, I suppose upon a club among them.

1678.  Butler, Hud., III. i. 596. Who’s bound to vouch ’em for his own, Though got by Implicit Generation, And General Club of all the Nation.

1755.  Mem. Capt. P. Drake, I. xvii. 168. He offered to pay the Reckoning, which I would by no Means suffer; but all my Intreaties could not prevent his making it a Club, which I at last agreed to.

  † b.  The share of such joint expense contributed by, or due from an individual. Obs.

1660.  Pepys, Diary, 1 July. Met with Purser Washington, with whom … I dined at the Bell Tavern in King Street, but the rogue had no more manners than to invite me, and to let me pay my club. Ibid. (1665), 20 Feb. We dined merry: but my club and the rest come to 7/6d., which was too much.

1705.  Vanbrugh, Confed., I. i. They say he pays his club with the best of ’em.

1707.  Farquhar, Beaux Strat., IV. ii. We must not pretend to our share of the discourse, because we can’t pay our club o’ th’ reckoning.

1727.  Swift, Lett., Wks. 1841, II. 609/2. I remember when it grieved your soul to see me pay a penny more than my club at an inn.

1792.  Burke, Lett. Sir H. Langrishe, Wks. VI. 299. I had … paid my club to the society which I was born in some way or other to serve.

  † 11.  A meeting or assembly at a tavern, etc., for social intercourse; a social meeting the expenses of which are jointly defrayed; later, a periodical social meeting of such an association as is described in 13 (to which the name club was soon transferred). Obs. (Johnson’s explanation ‘An assembly of good fellows, meeting under certain conditions,’ belongs here, unless ‘assembly’ was meant for ‘association.’)

1648.  Davenant, Long Vac. in Lond., Wks. (1673), 289.

1665.  Pepys, Diary, 5 July. A house … where heretofore, in Cromwell’s time, we young men used to keep our weekly clubs.

1675.  R. L’Estrange, Art Good Husb., in Harl. Misc. (1810), VIII. 63. A mechanick tradesman … in the evening, about six o’clock, he goes to his two-penny club, and there stays for his two-pence till nine or ten … and usually, at parting, or breaking up of these clubs, they divide themselves according to their several inclinations … some go to a tavern, [etc.].

1711.  Addison, Spect., No. 9, ¶ 1. Those little Nocturnal Assemblies, which are commonly known by the name of Clubs.

1722.  De Foe, Plague (1884 Rtldg.), 92. This Tavern, where they held their Club.

1764.  A. Murphy, Apprentice. A Farce, 8. He went three times a week to a Spouting club. W. … What’s a Spouting club? G. A meeting of Prentices and Clerks … intoxicated with Plays, and so they meet in Public Houses to act Speeches.

1791.  ‘G. Gambado,’ Acad. Horsem., ii. (1809), 72. Many bets are depending on it at our next Club.

1801.  Macneill, Poet. Wks., I. 23. Jean, at first, took little heed o’ Owkly clubs mang three or four.

  † 12.  A knot of men associated together; a set, a clique; early applied to a private association with a political object; a secret society. Obs.

1682.  Dryden, Medal, Ded. What right has any man among you … to meet, as you daily do, in factious clubs, to vilify the government in your discourses?

1683.  Evelyn, Diary, 28 June. They [the Rye House plotters] were discovered by the Lord Howard of Escrick and some false brethren of the club.

1690.  Locke, Hum. Und., II. xxviii. § 14. Nor is there one of ten thousand, who is stiff and insensible enough, to bear up under the constant Dislike, and Condemnation of his own Club. Ibid. (1692), Educ., § 94 ¶ 4. The Dangers [should be] pointed out that attend him from the several Degrees, Tempers, Designs, and Clubs of Men.

1695.  Luttrell, Brief Rel. (1857), III. 546. This day one Chapman of the Bridgefoot club was taken into custody for treasonable practices. Ibid., III. 550. One Chapman of the Southwark clubb is bailed on promise to discover the rest of the Jacobite clubb.

1727.  Swift, Gulliver, III. iv. 205. A club of those projectors came to him with proposals.

1730.  Wesley, Wks. (1830), I. 3. He had been rallied the day before on being a member of the Holy Club.

  13.  An association or society of persons of like sympathies, of a common vocation, or otherwise mutually acceptable, meeting periodically (under certain regulations) at some house of entertainment, for social intercourse and cooperation.

  As to ‘clubs’ in this sense, which were a great feature of English life in the 18th c., see the Spectator 1711, No. 9. Associations of this sort still exist under the name; but, speaking, generally, the 17–18th c. ‘club’ has developed in two directions; that mainly connected with entertainment having become a permanent institution as described in sense 15, while the occasionally or periodically meeting club has usually primary objects apart from conviviality, as in 14. (The first quotation may belong to sense 12.)

1670.  Collins, in Rigaud, Corr. Sci. Men (1841), II. 526. Of two mathematical clubs here, one is a large one consisting of divers ingenious mechanics, gaugers, carpenters.

c. 1690.  B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew, Club … a Society of Men agreeing to meet according to a Scheme of Orders under a slight Penalty to promote Trade and Friendship.

1711.  Swift, Jrnl. to Stella, 21 June. In my absence they had erected a Club and made me one…. Our meetings are to be every Thursday: we are yet but twelve.

1714.  Journey thro’ Eng. (1722), I. 289. The Mug-House Club in Long-Acre; where every Wednesday and Saturday, a mixture of Gentlemen, Lawyers, and Tradesmen, meet in a great Room…. Here is nothing drank but Ale, and every Gentleman hath his separate Mug.

1791.  Boswell, Johnson, an. 1764. Soon after … was founded that club which existed long without a name, but at Mr. Garrick’s funeral became distinguished by the title of the Literary Club…. They met at the Turk’s Head, in Gerrard Street, Soho, one evening in every week, at seven.

1865.  O. W. Holmes, in Motley’s Lett., II. 10 Oct. What a fine thing it would be to see you back at the Saturday Club again.

  14.  An association formed to combine the operations of persons interested in the promotion or prosecution of some object; the purpose is often indicated in the title, as Alpine, Athletic, Chess, Cricket, Football, Literary, Natural History Field, Tennis, Yacht Club, etc.; Benefit, Clothing, Coal, Goose Club, etc.

  Many of these are solely devoted to the object for which they are organized; others combine therewith some of the convivial features of sense 13, or even the permanent organization of sense 15. Here belong the publishing clubs, as the Abbotsford, Bannatyne, Roxburgh, Spalding, etc., which differ from societies with similar objects chiefly in their limitation of membership to a fixed number.

1755.  (title) The Game at Cricket, as settled by the Several Cricket Clubs.

1790.  Burke, Fr. Rev., 2. The solemn public seal of sanction they have received from two clubs of gentlemen in London, called the Constitutional Society, and the Revolution Society.

1812.  Exam., 10 May, 291/1, note. The benefit club … forms something of a provision against adversity.

1859.  [John Ball] Peaks, Passes & Glac., 1st Ser. vii. Early in the year 1858, it was resolved to give scope for the extension of this mutual feeling amongst all who have explored high mountain regions, by the formation of the Alpine Club.

1887.  Miss Braddon, Like & Unlike, I. x. 228. St. Austell had got the commoner into the Jockey Club.

1890.  Times, 2 Jan., 8/1. Her Majesty also contributes £100 annually to the funds of the Royal Clothing Club at Windsor.

  b.  Short for BENEFIT CLUB. colloq. (Cf. club-feast, -money in 20.) To be on the Club: to receive relief from its funds.

  15.  An association of persons (admittance into which is usually guarded by ballot), formed mainly for social purposes, and having a building (or part of one) appropriated to the exclusive use of the members, and always open to them as a place of resort, or, in some cases, of temporary residence; the club may be political, literary, military, etc., according to the aims and occupations of its members, but its main feature is to provide a place of resort, social intercourse, and entertainment.

  This is a natural development of the club of sense 13, which gradually grew till it monopolized the whole accommodation of the tavern or house at which it met, and the place became known as a ‘club-house,’—the club often bearing the name of the proprietor of the house. Later, in order to have the management of the house and their affairs in their own hands, some clubs started fully equipped establishments of their own. The institution has developed into its most completely organized form in London, where, especially in the vicinity of St. James’s (colloquially called ‘clubland’), are to be found the most perfect types of it.

1776.  Walpole, Jrnl. Reign Geo. III. (1859), II. 39. Being excluded from the fashionable club of young men at Almack’s they formed a plan for a new club…. They built a magnificent house in St. James’s Street and furnished it gorgeously.

1823.  Byron, Let. Ld. Blessington, 5 April. In my time Watier’s was the Dandy Club.

a. 1837.  Penny Cycl., VII. 275. The modern subscription houses which go by the name of clubs, such as the Athenæum, the University, the Senior and Junior United Service,—are in no respect clubs, according to the ancient English understanding of the term except that every member must be balloted for, or admitted by the consent of the rest.

1862.  R. H. Gronow, Remin., 76. THE CLUBS OF LONDON IN 1814.—… White’s, Boodle’s, Brookes’, or Wattiers’, which with the Guards, Arthur’s, and Graham’s, were the only clubs at the West End of the town.

1877.  Trollope, Prime Minister, ii. The club went on its way like other clubs, and men dined and smoked and played billiards and pretended to read.

  b.  The building or rooms occupied by such a society, a club-house.

a. 1837.  [see above].

1850.  Thackeray, Pendennis, i. Major Arthur Pendennis came over from his lodgings … to breakfast at a certain Club in Pall Mall.

1883.  G. Lloyd, Ebb & Flow, II. 292. They sent for me at my club.

  16.  transf. The name of certain organizations on the continent, esp. those of a political character in France, which, at various times, took a prominent part in political affairs.

1790.  Burke, Fr. Rev., 172. When he [Harry the Eighth] resolved to rob the abbies, as the club of the Jacobins have robbed all the ecclesiastics.

1837.  Carlyle, Fr. Rev., II. I. v. (Clubbism), It … calls itself Club: calls itself in imitation … of those generous Price-Stanhope English, who sent over to congratulate, French Revolution Club … under the shorter popular title of Jacobins’ Club, it shall become memorable to all times and lands.

1858.  Buckle, Civiliz. (1869), II. vii. 414. The first clubs which ever existed in Paris were formed about 1782.

1870.  Daily News, 25 Nov., 6/3. A club here … does not mean what it does in England; it is simply a debating society open to all the world, where the Frenchman can indulge his love of oratory and of wordy contest.

  17.  Applied to ancient associations.

1837.  Thirlwall, Greece, IV. xxviii. 36. These clubs were of long standing at Athens.

1838.  Arnold, Hist. of Rome (1846), I. xvi. 334. The young patricians, organised in their clubs, supported each other in their outrages.

  IV.  attrib. and Comb.

  18.  attrib. Of or pertaining to a club or clubs.

1637.  T. Goodwin, Aggrav. of Sin (1643), 53. They would perswade them to it by a clubb argument, drawn from avoiding persecution.

1791.  Burke, Let. Member Nat. Assem., Wks. 1842, VI. 51. The scheme of parochial and club governments takes up the state at the wrong end.

1859.  Sala, Tw. round Clock (1861), 226. He writes his letters on the club paper, pops them into club envelopes, seals them with the club seal, and despatches them … by the club messengers.

1882.  Miss Braddon, Mt. Royal, I. ii. 39. One of my club gossips.

  19.  General combs., as a. (in sense 1) club-bearer, -fellow, -method, -stick; club-armed, -high, -like, -tailed adjs.; club-pigtail, -wig (see 6); b. (in senses 13–17) club-dinner, -hour, -monger, -night, -room, -time, etc.

1655–60.  Stanley, Hist. Philos. (1701), 3/1. The *Club-Arm’d Traveller.

1552.  Huloet, *Clubbe bearer, clauator.

1855.  Kingsley, Heroes, Theseus, II. 206. Corynetes the club-bearer.

1836–48.  B. D. Walsh, Aristoph., 114, note. A *club-dinner, it appears, was an ordinary affair.

1847.  Carpenter, Zool., § 649. The Palpicornes also possess antennæ with a *club-like termination.

1884.  Bower & Scott, De Bary’s Phaner. & Ferns, 385. Swollen in a club-like manner.

1817.  Cobbett, Wks., XXXII. 72. Loyal *club-mongers communicate their schemes to the government.

1885.  Whitaker’s Almanack, 129. The ventures of speculative ‘Club-mongers’ are dying out.

1764.  A. Murphy, Apprentice, 19. It must be almost Nine. I’ll away at once; this is *Club-night.

1783.  Gentl. Mag., LIII. II. 814. No wine was to be drunk out of the *club-room.

1830.  Blackw. Mag., XXVII. 47. I took up the … Morning Herald from the club-table in the club-room of the country town of O——.

1837.  Carlyle, Fr. Rev., II. I. v. The *Club-spirit is universal.

1880.  Q. Rev., Jan., 32. Rhetoric which sends mobs yelling to the tar-barrel or the *club-stick.

1846.  Ld. Campbell, Chancellors, Thurlow, V. clv. 489. When I myself first began the study of the law, the modern *club-system was unknown.

1794.  W. Roberts, Looker-on, III. 386. Your *club-tailed coach-horses.

1711.  Budgell, Spect., No. 77, ¶ 1. A little before our *Club-time last Night we were walking together.

  20.  Special combs. (in a few of which the vb. stem seems to be the source): club antenna, an antenna with a thickened or knobbed extremity; club-drub v., to beat; club-ended a., thickened or knobbed at the end; club-farm, a farm on co-operative principles; club-feast, (a) a feast at a club; (b) an annual gathering in connection with a benefit-club; † club-grass, (a) = CLUB-RUSH; (b) bookname for Corynephorus, a genus of rare grasses; club-hand, a rare deformity of the hand, similar in nature to club-foot (Syd. Soc. Lex.); club-head, a club-shaped or club-like head; so club-headed a., † club-headpiece; club-land, see 15; † club-lome (loom), a weapon or tool consisting of a club; club-master, † (a) one who uses physical force; (b) the manager of a club; club-money, (a) money contributed towards a ‘club’ (cf. 10); (b) subscription to a benefit club or provident society; † club-musket, the use of a musket as a club; club-root, a disease of turnips, etc., anbury; club-start, -tail, dial. names of the stoat; club-tie, a tie that binds a club of hair (cf. 6); club-tooth, a tooth of a wheel that is thicker towards the outer end; † club-weed, a name for Matfelon, or Knap-weed; club-wheat, a variety of wheat; club-wood, a name of CASUARINA. Also CLUB-FIST, -FOOT, -HAUL, -MAN, -MOSS, etc.

1753.  Chambers, Cycl. Supp., *Club antennæ … of butterflies.

1885.  Pall Mall Gaz., 3 March, 4/1. There is a swarm of brown creatures, each with six legs and a pair of club antennæ.

1875.  Browning, Aristoph. Apol., 183. In dealing with King Multitude, *Club-drub the callous numsculls!

1885.  Dk. Argyle, in Contemp. Rev., Oct., 477. *Club-farms … are as yet, purely experimental.

1787.  Withering, Brit. Plants (1796), II. 73. Club-rush, Aglet-headed Rush, Common *Club-grass.

1870.  Holmes, Surgery (ed. 2), III. 667. This explanation does not apply to the *Club-hands.

1713.  Derham, Phys. Theol., VIII. vi. (1714), 386 (R.). In its Aurelia-State, it hath a quite a different Body, with a *Club-Head. Ibid., IV. xv. 252, note (J.). Small *club-headed Antennæ.

1698.  Vanbrugh, Æsop, II. ii. Clap me at the head of the state, and Numphs at the head of the army; he with his club-musket and I with my *club-headpiece, we’d soon put an end to your business.

1885.  Whitaker’s Almanack, 129. The vapid conversation now to be heard in *Club-land generally.

1886.  Pall Mall Gaz., 4 Oct., 6/1. Clubland proper is still and will remain pretty much what it was in the days of Major Pendennis and the Marquis of Steyne.

a. 1400.  Sir Perc., 2053. The gyant with his *clobe-lome Wolde hafe strekyne Percevelle sone.

1661.  Gauden, to K. Chas. II., 4. The many and long tragedies suffered from those *club-masters and tub-ministers.

1836–48.  B. D. Walsh, Aristoph., 114, note. The person who managed the arrangements of the feast collected the *club-money.

1888.  Miss Miranda Hill, in 19th Cent., March, 460. What about club money? I know you belong to a provident society.

1677.  Ld. Orrery, Art of War, 30. To fall in at *Club Musket.

1690.  J. Mackenzie, Siege London-Derry, 34/1. Our men pursued them so close, that they came to Club-Musquet with it.

1698.  [see Club-headpiece].

1846.  J. Baxter, Libr. Pract. Agric., II. 11. Unfounded popular prejudices about *club-root, anbury, blight, honey-dew, &c.

1848.  Proc. Berw. Nat. Club, II. No. vi. 326. The disease called fingers-and-toes, anbury, or club-root.

1877.  Holderness Gloss., *Club-start, a species of pole-cat.

1877.  N.-W. Lincolnsh. Gloss., *Club-tail, a stoat.

1875.  McCosh, Scott. Philos., vii. 62. Cocked hats perched on powdered hair or wig with dangling *clubtie or pigtail.

1884.  F. J. Britten, Watch & Clockm., 62. [The] *Club Tooth … [is] the form of tooth mostly used for lever escape wheels of foreign watches.

a. 1500.  Gloss., in Archaeol., XXX. 405/2. Clubbeweed, Matfelon.

1888.  Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc., April, 57. The prices of No. 2 *Club wheat at Calcutta.

1777.  G. Forster, Voy. round World, II. 18. Their weapons were all made of the *club-wood, or casuarina.