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club-man|ˈklʌbmən|
[f. club n. + man.]
1. A man armed with a club, for fighting or enforcement of order.
1597Pilgr. Parnass. i. 138 One Carterus a lustie club⁓man..that defended him. 1676Lond. Gaz. No. 1152/2 Stockholme Octob. 30..the King..found it [his Army] to consist in 22000 Men, besides 8000 Boors or Club men. 1868Milman St. Paul's vii. 167 Two nobles were given by the Archdeacon of London to the club-men (city-police), to keep off the pressure of the mob. 1872S. Mateer Travancore 254 Six years ago I employed clubmen to guard my paddy.
2. Eng. Hist. Bodies of untrained and half-armed countrymen, with bludgeons, and the like, during the Civil War of the 17th c.
These appeared first in Yorkshire (c 1642–3) on the side of the Parliament: somewhat later (c 1645) in the south and west, ostensibly as neutrals, seeking only to protect their property from plunder. See Clarendon, bk. ix.
1643Mercurius Aulicus 4 Apr., He found they [Fairfax's troops, from Seacroft Moor 30th Mar.] were gone back with nine colours and two troopes of horse, besides their club⁓men (whereof we have such notable romances in the London newes-books). 1645in Rushw. Hist. Coll. I. 52 Two captains of the Club-men (as they were called) being a great number of the inhabitants of several parts of Wiltshire, and some counties adjacent, who gathered themselves together, alledging they did but stand on their own defence, to prevent Plundering; and that they would in that posture remain Neuters until the King and his Parliament should agree. 1645Prince Chas. in Clarendon Hist. Reb. ix. (1843) 557/1 Seasonably to discountenance, and punish those assemblies of club-men; which would otherwise, in time, prove as dangerous to him, as any other strength of the rebels. 1647May Hist. Parl. iii. iv. 63, 1000 Musqueteers, with 2000 Club-men, under the command of Sir William Fairfax [in 1643].
3. A member of a club.
1851Thackeray Eng. Hum. (1866) 105 Addison was one of the most resolute club-men of his day. 1859Lang Wand. India 21, I find a party of five at the hotel; all club men, and intimate friends of mine. |