clubn.
/klʌb/, U.S. /kləb/ I. A thick stick, and related senses.† 3. A staff or baton used as an official and restrictive ‘pass’. Obsolete.
1. figurative.1579 W. Fulke Heskins Parl. Repealed in D. Heskins Ouerthrowne 89 Howe soudenly hath M. Heskins forgotten the strong clubbe of his Logike.† c. prentices and clubs: the rallying cry of the London apprentices. Obsolete.† 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.† e. A heavy, clumsy fellow; a clown. Obsolete.
a. 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.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > club or stick > [noun]
sowelc893
treec893
cudgelc897
stinga900
bat?c1225
sticka1275
clubc1275
truncheon14..
bourdonc1325
bastona1400
warderera1400
plantc1400
kibble1411
playloomc1440
hurlbatc1450
ploykc1450
rung1491
libberlac1500
waster1533
batonc1550
macana1555
libbet1562
bastinado1574
crab-tree comb1593
tomahawkc1612
billeta1616
wiper1622
batoon1637
gibbeta1640
crab-bat1647
kibbo1688
Indian club1694
batterdasher1696
crab-stick1703
bloodwipea1705
bludgeon1730
kierie1731
oaken towel1739
crab1740
shillelagh1772
knobstick1783
pogamogganc1788
whirlbat1791
nulla-nulla1798
waddy1800
kevel1807
supple1815
mere1820
hurlet1825
knobkerrie1826
blackthorn1829
bastera1833
twig1842
leangle1845
alpeen1847
banger1849
billy1856
thwack-stave1857
clump1868
cosh1869
nulla1878
sap1899
waddy1899
blunt instrument1923
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > gymnastics > [noun] > equipment
plummet?1537
springboard?1780
horse1785
trampoline1798
club1815
gallows1817
Indian club1825
rope1825
horizontal bar1827
trapeze1830
vaulting bar1839
parallel bars1850
wooden horse1854
trapezium1856
giant stride1863
ring1869
vaulting horse1875
mast1880
fly-pole1884
pommel1887
Roman ring1894
mat1903
wall bar1903
pommel horse1908
buck1932
pommel vault1932
landing mat1941
rebounder1980
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 10730 Mid clubben [c1300 Otho clubbes] swiðe græte.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 10462 Alle þa heorede-cnauen mid clibben heo a-qualden.
c1320 Sir Beues 2511 His clob was..A lite bodi of an ok.
a1400 Sir Perc. 2018 Ane iryne clobe takes he.
c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (1920) l. 1348 He cleches to a gret klubbe & knokkes hem to peces.
1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos xlviii. 141 The geaunte bare a clubbe.
1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Clubbe of leade, plumbata.
a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) iv. i. 92 Troilous had his braines dash'd out with a Grecian club . View more context for this quotation
1684 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress 2nd Pt. 125 The Giant mist but little of all-to-breaking Mr. Great-heart's Scull with his Club . View more context for this quotation
1815 M. Elphinstone Acct. Kingdom Caubul ii. viii. 264 Another exercise is whirling a heavy club round the head.
b. Used as the symbol of rude physical force: cf. 1d, and club-law n.
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1606 S. Hieron Truths Purchase in Wks. (1620) 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.
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1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. lxiv All the young men..cryed prentyses and clubbes. Then out at euery doore came clubbes and weapons, and the Alderman fled.
1604 T. Dekker & T. Middleton Honest Whore iv. iii. 91 Sfoot clubs, clubs, prentices, downe with em, ah you roagues, strike a Cittizen in 's shop.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) i. iv. 82 Ile call for Clubs, if you will not away. View more context for this quotation
1822 W. Scott Fortunes of Nigel I. i. 27 The well-known cry of, ‘'Prentices—'prentices—Clubs—clubs!’ now rang along Fleet Street.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > violent behaviour > [phrase] > by violence or force > force rules
might is rightc1330
clubs are trump1584
the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > absence of doubt, confidence > assured fact, certainty > making certain, assurance > of course, certainly [phrase] > beyond question
(as) sure as ——a1413
if your cap be of wool1546
as sure as a club1584
(as) sure as a guna1640
(as) sure as God made little apples1796
you can gamble on that1862
no matter how (or whichever way, etc.) you slice it1936
that's for sure1971
1584 R. Scot Discouerie Witchcraft iv. ix. 84 Hir prophesie fell out as sure as a club.
1588 R. Greene Pandosto sig. C4v Taking vp a cudgel..sware solemnly that shee would make clubs trumps, if hee brought any bastard brat within her dores.
1607 ‘W. S.’ Puritaine iii. 26 I knew by their shuffling Clubs would be Trumpe.
a1634 J. Day Peregrinatio Scholastica (Sloane 3150) f. 15 Secum ad penam æternam trahit, he is his owne as sure as a clubb.
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society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > lout or boor > [noun]
carter1509
clumpertonc1534
club1542
pig1546
lout1548
clinchpoop1555
clout-shoe1563
loose-breech1575
hoyden1593
clunch1602
clod1607
camel1609
clusterfist1611
loon1619
Grobian1621
clota1637
hoyde1636
Hottentot1710
yahoo1726
polisson1866
mucker1884
bohunk1908
hairy ape1931
cafone1949
trog1956
oafo1959
the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > [noun] > unmannerliness > unrefined manners or behaviour > person
bearc1395
carter1509
kensy?a1513
clumpertonc1534
club1542
lout1548
clinchpoop1555
clout-shoe1563
loose-breech1575
clown1583
hoyden1593
boor1598
kill-courtesy1600
rustic1600
clunch1602
loblolly1604
camel1609
clusterfist1611
loon1619
Grobian1621
rough diamonda1625
hoyde1636
clodhopper1699
roughhead1726
indelicate1741
vulgarian1809
snob1838
vulgarist1847
yahoo1861
cave-dweller1865
polisson1866
mucker1884
caveman1907
wampus1912
yobbo1922
yenta1923
yob1927
rude1946
cafone1949
no-neck1961
ocker1971
1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 167 The fair flatte truthe that the vplandishe or homely and playn clubbes of the countree dooen vse.
1818 H. J. Todd Johnson's Dict. Eng. Lang. Club..an old term for a booby. Grose under Hertfordshire clubs and clouted shoon.]
2.
a. A stick or bat used in various games of ball; esp. the stick with a crooked and thickened head, used in golf [= Dutch kolf club, bat] and similar games; a hockey-stick.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > [noun] > instrument for hitting ball
clubc1450
battler?c1650
ball stick1775
pommel1845
ball bat1850
spat1866
paddle1922
c1450 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 738 Hec pila, a balle; Hoc pedum, a clubbe [cf. 666 cambok].
1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Clubbe croked at the one end, Vncinus, Vncus, Vngustus.
a1614 J. Melville Diary 14 Teached to handle the bow for archerie, the glub for goff.
c1625 MS. Harl. 6391 in Strutt Sports & Past. ii. iii. §14 The prince [Henry] lifted up his goff-club to strike the ball.
1801 J. Strutt Glig-gamena Angel-ðeod ii. iii. §14 A club or bat.
a1805 A. Carlyle Autobiogr. (1860) ix. 343 To bring golf clubs and balls.
1889 A. Lang in Daily News 30 Apr. 4/8 Golf clubs..are like crooked sticks, the ball being hit from the face of the crook.
b. (See quot. 1889) Cf. club-topsail n. at Compounds 3.
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1889 Cent. Dict. Club, a small spar to which the head of a gaff-topsail or the clue of a staysail or jib is bent to make the sail set to the best advantage.
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society > authority > lack of subjection > permission > [noun] > document which permits or authorizes > to go or come > staff or baton used instead of
club1612
1612 J. Brinsley Ludus Lit. xxx. 299 The shrewdest boyes, who vse to waite for the club, and watch their times.
a1697 Aubrey in W. J. 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.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > parts and fittings of firearms > [noun] > stock or shaft > parts of
shaft1626
side plate1680
pistol hand1702
club1720
heel plate1753
break-off1804
shoulder-butt1810
pistol-butt1814
rifle butt1826
pistol grip1841
nose cap1844
trap1844
trap-plate1844
receiver1851
bump1852
furniture1852
bend1859
comb1867
fore-end1881
furniture-pin1881
grip1881
1720 D. Defoe Mem. Cavalier 69 With the Clubs of their Musquets, [they] made a..dreadful Slaughter.
5. transferred. Any club-shaped structure or organ; a knob; a bunch; a gradually thickened and rounded end. Also, a clump (of trees) (U.S.).
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the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > shape > [noun] > club-shaped
club1813
1707 tr. P. Le Lorrain de Vallemont Curiosities in Husbandry & Gardening 286 Upon this Column is a little Club, called the Hammer of the Flower.
1813 W. Bingley Animal Biogr. (ed. 4) III. 122 The antennæ are club-shaped; the club perfoliate.
1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple I. v. 51 A nose which had a red club to it.
1836 D. B. Edward Hist. Texas 36 We find..one solid prairie..intersected..with variegated clubs of timber.
1879 C. R. Conder Tent Wk. Palestine 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 cent. Hence club-pigtail, club-wig.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > styles of hair > [noun] > tresses or plaits
tracec1380
plight?1387
tressa1400
plexc1450
braid1530
tuck1532
buoy-rope1546
trammels1589
entrammelling1598
border1601
point1604
pleat?1606
trammelets1654
maze1657
brede1696
queue1724
pigtail?1725
tie1725
cue1731
tuck-up1749
tutulus1753
club1786
tail1799
French twist1850
Grecian plait1851
French plait1871
horse's tail1873
Gretchen braid, plait1890
shimada1910
ponytail1916
French braid1937
cane row1939
dreadlocks1960
French pleat1964
Tom Jones1964
corn row1971
dread1984
club-pigtail-
1786 H. Mackenzie Lounger No. 89. ⁋8 Their commentaries on walking boots, riding slippers, clubs, buckles and buttons.
1788 ‘P. Pindar’ Lousiad: Canto II (ed. 3) 25 Curl, club, and pigtail, all sal go to pot.
1837 New Monthly Mag. 49 550 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 Longfellow I. ii. 19 A..gentleman..wearing..the old-style dress..his hair tied behind in a club, with black ribbon.
7. Horticulture. A disease in cabbages or turnips in which an excrescence forms at the base of the stem; club-root; cf. clubbing n. 2.
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the world > plants > disease or injury > [noun] > associated with particular type of plant > crop or food plant > vegetables > turnips or cabbages
anbury1742
fingers and toes1799
club1830
club-root1832
clubbing1836
brown-heart1950
1830 J. Baxter Libr. Agric. & Hort. Knowl. 104 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. plural. The cards forming one of the four suits, distinguished by the conventional representation of a trefoil leaf in black; in singular a club-card, a card of this suit. [A translation of the Spanish name basto, or Italian bastone (see basto n., baston n.), the ‘club’ figured on Spanish cards. The current English figure is taken from the French, where the name is trèfle, trefoil.]
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > card or cards > [noun] > suit > specific suit or card of
clubs1563
hearts1583
money1593
diamond1594
spade1598
spade1745
swords1816
coins1844
batons1848
puppyfoot1907
1563 J. Foxe Actes & Monuments 1298/1 The beste cote carde beside in the bunche, yea thoughe it were the Kyng of Clubbes.
1593 A. Munday tr. C. Estienne Def. Contraries sig. H1 The inuenter of the Italian Cardes..put the Deniers or monyes, and Bastons or clubs in combate togither.
1600 S. Rowlands Letting of Humors Blood Sat. iii. 58 The Knaue of Clubbes he any time can burne, And finde him in his boosome, for his turne.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Treffle, also, a Club at Cards.
1714 A. Pope Rape of Lock (new ed.) iii. 23 Clubs, Diamonds, Hearts, in wild Disorder seen.
1785 W. Cowper Task iv. 218.
1801 J. Strutt Glig-gamena Angel-ðeod iv. ii. 285 (note) The suit of clubs upon the Spanish cards is not the trefoil, but positively clubs, or cudgels.
1910 W. Dalton ‘Saturday’ Bridge (rev. ed.) ix. 119 He leads the king of clubs first.
1966 Listener 10 Mar. 366/3 East trumped the diamond and returned a club.
III. A combination, association.This group of senses is closely connected with the verb; 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 sense 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. Obsolete.† 10. † b. The share of such joint expense contributed by, or due from an individual. Obsolete.† 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). Obsolete. (Johnson's explanation ‘An assembly of good fellows, meeting under certain conditions’, belongs here, unless ‘assembly’ was meant for ‘association’.)† 12. A knot of men associated together; a set, a clique; early applied to a private association with a political object; a secret society. Obsolete.
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the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > [noun] > composite collectiveness > agglomeration or conglomeration
congregationc1374
conglomeration1626
glomeration1626
agglomeration1661
club1664
consolidationa1676
1664 H. Power Exper. 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 Treat. Bulk & Selvedge 139 This hord of restlesness is evenly dealt out amongst the sundry Clubs and Cantreds of bodies.
a. A combination of contributions to make up a total sum, e.g. to defray the expense of an entertainment. Obsolete.
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society > trade and finance > payment > contribution > [noun] > money collected > to make up total sum
club1660
club-money1836
1660 S. Pepys Diary 25 Feb. (1970) I. 67 A very handsome supper at Mr. Hills chamber, I suppose upon a club among them.
1678 S. Butler Hudibras: Third Pt. iii. i. 35 Who's bound to vouch 'em for his own, Though got b' Implicite Generation, And General Club of all the Nation.
a1753 P. Drake Memoirs (1755) 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.
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society > trade and finance > payment > contribution > [noun] > share contributed by individual
shot1519
club1660
whip1861
1660 S. Pepys Diary 2 July (1970) I. 190 Met with Purser Washington, with whom..I dined at the Bell Taverne in King's-street; but the rogue had no more manners then to invite me thither and to let me pay my club.
1665 S. Pepys Diary 20 Feb. (1972) VI. 39 We dined, merry; but my club and the rest come to 7s. 6d, which was too much.
1705 J. Vanbrugh Confederacy i. i They say he pays his club with the best of 'em.
1707 G. Farquhar Beaux Stratagem iv. 51 We must not pretend to our share of the Discourse, because we can't pay our Club o'th Reckoning.
1727 J. Swift Let. to Pope 30 Oct. in Lett. Dr. Swift (1741) 68 I remember it grieved your soul to see me pay a penny more than my club at an Inn.
1792 E. Burke Let. to H. Langrishe in Wks. VI. 299 I had..paid my club to the society which I was born in some way or other to serve.
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society > leisure > social event > social gathering > [noun] > gathering at a tavern, etc.
club1648
Kommers1839
supper club1844
commers1854
Kneipe1854
1648 W. Davenant Vacation in London Our mules are come: dissolve the club: The word, till term, is ‘Rub! oh rub!’
1665 S. Pepys Diary 5 July (1972) VI. 148 A house..where heretofore in Cromwells time we young men used to keep our weekly clubs.
1675 R. T. Art Good Husb. 2 A Mechanick Tradesman..In the Evening, about Six a Clock, he goes to his Two-penny Club, and there stayes 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 J. Addison Spectator No. 9. ¶1 Those little Nocturnal Assemblies, which are commonly known by the Name of Clubs.
1722 D. Defoe Jrnl. Plague Year 80 This Tavern, where they held their Club.
1756 A. Murphy Apprentice i. 8 Gargle. He went three Times a week to a Spouting-Club... Wingate. What's a Spouting-Club? Gargle. A Meeting of Prentices and Clerks..intoxicated with Plays; and so they meet in Public Houses to act Speeches.
1791 ‘G. Gambado’ Ann. Horsemanship ii. 7 Many betts are depending on it at our next Club.
?1795 H. Macneill Scotland's Scaith 18 Jean, at first, took little heed o' Owkly clubs mang three or four.
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society > society and the community > social relations > an association, society, or organization > secret society > [noun]
club1682
secret society1829
mafia1891
society > society and the community > social relations > an association, society, or organization > types of association, society, or organization > [noun] > a coterie or clique
junto1659
cabal1660
Cabbala1671
club1682
clique1711
galère1756
click1813
coterie1827
cenacle1889
magic circle1924
1682 J. Dryden Medall Epist. Whigs sig. A3 What right has any man among you..to meet, as you daily doe, in Factious Clubs, to vilify the Government, in your Discourses..?
a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1683 (1955) IV. 323 They [sc. the Rye House plotters] were discovered by the Lord Howard, & some false breathren of the Clubb.
1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding ii. xxvii. 160 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.
1692 J. Locke Some Thoughts conc. Educ. §94 ⁋4 The Dangers [should be] pointed out that attend him from the several Degrees, Tempers, Designs, and Clubs of Men.
1695 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) III. 546 This day one Chapman of the Bridgefoot club was taken into custody for treasonable practices.
1695 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) III. 550 One Chapman of the Southwark clubb is bailed on promise to discover the rest of the Jacobite clubb.
1726 J. Swift Gulliver II. iii. iv. 60 A Club of those Projectors came to him with Proposals.
1730 J. Wesley Wks. (1830) I. 3 He had been rallied the day before on being a member of the Holy Club.
13.
a. 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 17–18th centuries, see the Spectator 1721 No. 9. Associations of this sort still exist under the name; but, speaking generally, the 17–18th century ‘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.)
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society > society and the community > social relations > an association, society, or organization > types of association, society, or organization > [noun] > club
society1603
club1670
collegea1703
coterie1764
hui1898
1670 Collins in Rigaud Corr. Sc. Men (1841) II. 526 Of two mathematical clubs here, one is a large one consisting of divers ingenious mechanics, gaugers, carpenters.
1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting 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 J. Swift Jrnl. to Stella 21 June (1948) I. 294 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 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1764 I. 261 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 Let. 10 Oct. in J. L. Motley Corr. (1889) II. vi. 209 What a fine thing it would be to see you back at the Saturday Club again.
b. A building, rooms, or other premises occupied or owned by a club; an establishment providing entertainment, etc., to members and guests; also = nightclub n. Cf. working men's club n. at working man n. Compounds.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > public building > [noun] > other spec.
hallc1302
prytaneum1577
praetorium?1586
Roman bath1680
Colosseum1809
kursaal1850
scuola1851
culture centre1890
cultural centre1891
club1896
1896 Daily News 20 May 5/6 Those ‘go-as-you-please’ establishments called clubs.
1922 E. O'Neill Hairy Ape (1923) vii. 64 The interior of the room..resembles some dingy settlement boys' club.
1935 A. MacArthur & H. K. Long No Mean City xx. 312 By the time of the Glasgow Fair..the first of the clubs and recreation halls which now play an important part in tenement life were opened.
1957 R. Hoggart Uses of Literacy v. 121 Women, dressed in their best, out on a pub, club or street excursion.
1966 K. F. Otterbein Andros Islanders i. 17 In addition to houses, the villages have bars, small grocery shops, churches, clubs (a club is a bar with a dance hall), schools, and society halls or lodges.
1977 Evening Post (Nottingham) 24 Jan. 7/6 But the couple who lived there escaped with their lives—because just two hours earlier a neighbour had persuaded them to go with him to a local social club.
14.
a. 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 club, athletic club, chess club, football club, literary club, natural history field club, tennis club, yacht club, etc.; benefit club, clothing club, coal club, 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.
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society > society and the community > social relations > an association, society, or organization > types of association, society, or organization > [noun] > club > club with special interest
club1755
Orange Lodge1806
special interest group1908
1755 (title) The Game at Cricket, as settled by the Several Cricket Clubs.
1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 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. View more context for this quotation
1812 Examiner 11 May 291/1 The benefit club..forms something of a provision against adversity.
1859 Peaks, Passes, & Glaciers 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 M. E. Braddon Like & Unlike I. x. 228 St. Austell had got the commoner into the Jockey Club.
1890 Times (Weekly ed.) 3 Jan. 15/3 Her Majesty contributes £100 annually to the funds of the Royal Clothing Club at Windsor.
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b. Short for benefit-club n. at benefit n. Compounds 2. colloquial. (Cf. club-feast n., club-money n. at Compounds 3) to be on the club: to receive relief from its funds.
c. in the (pudding) club, pregnant; esp in to get or put (someone) in the (pudding) club, to make pregnant. slang.
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the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > fecundation or impregnation > [verb (transitive)]
geta1375
to beget with childa1393
impregn?c1550
season1555
enwomb1590
knock1598
with-child1605
fill1607
fertilitate1638
ingravidate1642
impregnate1646
improlificate1646
prolificate1650
pregnant1660
pregnate1686
fecundate1721
fecundify1736
to knock up1813
to put in the family way1898
inseminate1923
to get or put (someone) in the (pudding) club1936
stork1936
to put in the way1960
the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > pregnancy or gestation > [adjective]
greatc1175
with childc1175
with childc1300
baggeda1400
bounda1400
pregnant?a1425
quicka1450
greaterc1480
heavyc1480
teeming1530
great-bellied1533
big1535
boundenc1540
impregnate1540
great-wombeda1550
young with child1566
gravid1598
pregnate1598
pagled1599
enceinte1602
child-great1605
conceived1637
big-bellieda1646
brooding1667
in the (also a) family way1688
in the (also that) way1741
undelivered1799
ensient1818
enwombeda1822
in a delicate condition1827
gestant1851
in pod1890
up the (also a) pole1918
in a particular condition1922
preg?1927
in the spud line1937
up the spout1937
preggy1938
up the stick1941
preggers1942
in pig1945
primigravid1949
preggo1951
in a certain condition1958
gestating1961
up the creek1961
in the (pudding) cluba1966
gravidated-
1936 ‘J. Curtis’ Gilt Kid iv. 38 You were put in the pudden club by the squire's son.
1943 M. Harrison Reported Safe Arrival 13 D'jer put a servant-gal in the Club?
a1966 M. Allingham Cargo of Eagles (1968) v. 66 You want an angry husband or a young woman in the pudding club.
1969 J. Gardner Founder Member ix. 148 They mean you have to get me in the club.
1969 J. N. Smith Is he Dead, Miss ffinch? iv. 20 When the doctor told me I was in the club I told him he was daft—that I'd never—well, you know.
d. figurative. A number of people having something in common, sharing an experience, etc.
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society > society and the community > [noun] > social group > regarded as having something in common
clanc1540
crew1570
brood1581
public1911
club1944
1944 Chatelaine May 51/2 Join the Cotton Club! [i.e. wear cotton dresses].
1969 ‘J. Fraser’ Cock-pit of Roses vi. 45 Men knew she was available to anyone who cared to take her out for an evening... Peter had avoided joining the club.
1970 Calgary (Alberta) Herald 26 Mar. 34/1 Standard equipment for married men who cheat is a wife in poor health who can't face the blow. Welcome to The Club.
e. A group of nations united or associated for a particular purpose, as for trade, defence, etc.
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society > trade and finance > trading organization > [noun]
common market1843
clique1855
syndicate1865
pool1868
ring1869
conference1894
cartel1902
holding company1906
price ring1914
trading bloc1922
club1950
society > authority > rule or government > politics > international politics or relations > international agreements > [noun] > alliance or confederacy > ally > group of allied states
community1780
international community1832
Amphictyony1835
power bloc1925
power block1928
axis1936
club1950
1950 Ann. Reg. 1949 235 The Federal Government were given permission..to appoint their own delegate.., an important step in integrating Germany into the Western European ‘club’.
1952 Ann. Reg. 1951 166 Recommendations for the formation of a ‘Low Tariff Club’.
1958 Times 1 July 10/4 The French Ministers, as had been expected, last night emphasized their wish to see France become a member of the ‘atomic club’.
1959 Listener 31 Dec. 1140/2 If European membership of the nuclear club increased, the task of the Nato authorities is likely to become impossibly difficult.
15.
a. 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.
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society > society and the community > social relations > an association, society, or organization > types of association, society, or organization > [noun] > club > having a building
club1776
house club1878
1776 H. Walpole Mem. George 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 Ld. Byron Let. 5 Apr. (1980) X. 141 In my time Watier's was the Dandy Club.
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 Reminisc. 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.
1877 A. 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 clubhouse.
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society > society and the community > social relations > an association, society, or organization > types of association, society, or organization > [noun] > club > having a building > building
clubhouse1818
club1837
1837 [see sense 15a].
1848 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis (1850) I. i. 1 Major Arthur Pendennis came over from his lodgings..to breakfast at a certain Club in Pall Mall.
1883 ‘G. Lloyd’ Ebb & Flow II. xxxv. 292 They sent for me at my club.
c. the best club in London: a jocular name for the House of Commons.
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society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > governing or legislative body of a nation or community > English or British parliament > [noun] > House of Commons
commons?1433
commonalty1450
Nether House1536
House of Commons1604
grand (or great) inquest of the nation1691
the best club in London1864
1857 E. M. Whitty Friends of Bohemia II. i. 5 Some here [i.e. in the House of Commons] because it is the right club.]
1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. ii. iii. 186 I think..that it [sc. the House of Commons] is the best club in London.
1914 G. K. Chesterton Flying Inn xvii. 195 He saw afar off, sitting above the river, what has been very erroneously described as the best club in London.
1967 L. Woolf Downhill all Way i. 33 A backbench M.P. in the 1920s..was, no doubt, a member of what was said to be the best club in London.
16. transferred. 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.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > a party > [noun] > political club
club1790
synomosy1808
1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 172 When he [sc. Henry VIII] resolved to rob the abbies, as the club of the Jacobins have robbed all the ecclesiastics. View more context for this quotation
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. i. v. 42 (Clubbism) It..calls itself Club; calls itself in imitation,..of those generous Price-Stanhope English, French Revolution Club;..under the shorter popular title of Jacobins Club, it shall become memorable to all times and lands.
1858 H. T. Buckle Hist. Civilisation Eng. (1869) II. vii. 414 The first clubs which ever existed in Paris were formed about 1782.
1870 Daily News 25 Nov. 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.
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1837 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece IV. xxviii. 36 These clubs were of long standing at Athens.
1838 T. Arnold Hist. Rome (1846) I. xvi. 334 The young patricians, organised in their clubs, supported each other in their outrages.
Compounds
C1. attributive. Of or pertaining to a club or clubs.
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1637 T. Goodwin Aggravation Sinne (1643) 53 They would perswade them to it by a clubb argument, drawn from avoiding persecution.
1791 E. Burke Let. to Member Nat. Assembly in Wks. (1842) VI. 51 The scheme of parochial and club governments takes up the state at the wrong end.
1859 G. A. Sala Twice 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 M. E. Braddon Mt. Royal I. ii. 39 One of my club gossips.
C2. General combinations.
a.
(a) (In sense 1.)
club-bearer n.
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1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Clubbe bearer, clauator.
1855 C. Kingsley Theseus in Heroes ii. 206 Corynetes the club-bearer.
club-fellow n.
club-method n.
club-stick n.
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1880 Q. Rev. Jan. 32 Rhetoric which sends mobs yelling to the tar-barrel or the club-stick.
(b)
club-armed adj.
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1660 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. III. Topographical Table sig. Rrrrr3 The club-arm'd Traveller.
club-high adj.
club-like adj.
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1847 W. B. Carpenter Zool.: Systematic Acct. II. §649 The Palpicornes also possess antennæ with a club-like termination.
1884 F. O. Bower & D. H. Scott tr. H. A. de Bary Compar. Anat. Phanerogams & Ferns 385 Swollen in a club-like manner.
club-tailed adj.
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1793 W. Roberts Looker-on No. 83. 662 Your club-tailed coach-horses.
(c) (In sense 2.)
club-face n.
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1928 Daily Mail 25 July 15/4 Much has been heard in recent years of the ‘shut’ and ‘open’ club-faces.
club-head n.
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1890 H. G. Hutchinson in H. G. Hutchinson et al. Golf (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) iv. 78 The club-head wants to be travelling, when it meets the ball, in the direction in which it is intended the ball should go.
1903 Westm. Gaz. 17 July 3/2 To bring the club-head down on the back of the ball and between it and the rim of the cup.
club-maker n.
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1890 Ld. Wellwood in H. G. Hutchinson et al. Golf (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) ii. 55 Then arose a great master club-maker.
1891 H. G. Hutchinson Hints on Golf (ed. 6) 54 The club-maker whom you honour with your patronage.
1909 Westm. Gaz. 11 Jan. 12/2 Besides being a very fine player, Stephenson is a first-class club-maker.
club necktie n.
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1927 A. Bennett Woman who stole, Umbrella 152 He..wore..a club necktie carelessly knotted.
club-shaft n.
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1906 Westm. Gaz 12 Oct. 3/1 A little twist in the hand, with the club-shaft.
(d) see 6.
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club-pigtail n.
club-wig n.
b.
(a) in senses 13 – 17.
club-dinner n.
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1836–48 B. D. Walsh tr. Aristophanes Comedies 114 (note) A club-dinner, it appears, was an ordinary affair.
club-hour n.
club-monger n.
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1817 Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 18 Jan. 73 Loyal club-mongers communicate their schemes to the government.
1885 Whitaker's Almanack 129 The ventures of speculative ‘Club-mongers’ are dying out.
club-night n.
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1756 A. Murphy Apprentice i. 19 It must be almost nine. I'll away at once, this is Club-night.
club-room n.
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1783 Gentleman's Mag. 53 ii. 814 No wine was to be drunk out of the club-room.
1830 Blackwood's Mag. 27 47 I took up the..Morning Herald from the club-table in the club-room of the country town of O ——.
club-time n.
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1711 E. Budgell Spectator No. 77. ⁋1 A little before our Club-time last Night we were walking together.
(b) (In sense 14.)
club-book n.
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1852 C. M. Yonge Two Guardians xx. 397 Marian went on a voyage of discovery among the club books downstairs, and brought up a book of travels, and a novel.
1864 W. Bagehot Coll. Wks. (1965) II. 290 A large part of old novels may very fairly be called club-books; they speak out plainly and simply the notorious facts of the world, as men speak of them to men.
club button n.
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1894 To-day 17 Mar. 182/2 Yachting suits of blue cheviot with club buttons.
club-girl n.
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1891 T. Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles l, in Graphic 5 Dec. 665/3 The field in which, as a club-girl, she had first seen Angel Clare.
club-mate n.
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society > leisure > sport > player or sportsperson > [noun] > member of club
club-mate1909
society > society and the community > social relations > an association, society, or organization > types of association, society, or organization > [noun] > club > member > fellow-member
club-mate1909
1909 Westm. Gaz. 25 Oct. 14/2 The club..had been used to an old club-mate acting as umpire.
1960 T. McLean Kings of Rugby xi. 185 As clubmates, Briscoe and McCullough, were as yet wanting in subtlety.
club necktie n.
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1916 A. Bennett Lion's Share xxxii. 234 The owner..was wearing one of his most effulgent and heterogenous club neckties.
club tie n.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > neck-wear > [noun] > neck-tie or cravat > types of
scarf1865
squeeze1877
club tie1897
1897 Sears, Roebuck Catal. No. 104. 222 Puffs, Bows, Club Ties, etc.
1935 G. Greene Basement Room 102 The rather exclusive club tie, freshly ironed.
1949 M. Muggeridge Affairs of Heart ix. 177 A club tie, old and frayed.
(c) (In sense 15.)
club bore n.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [noun] > tedious or dull person
grub1653
noddeea1680
insipid1699
rocker1762
bore1812
Dryasdust1819
insipidity1822
prose1844
bagpipe1850
vampire1862
pill1865
jeff1870
terebrant1890
poop1893
stodger1905
club bore1910
nudnik1916
stodge1922
dreary1925
dreep1927
binder1930
drip1932
douchebag1946
drear1958
drag1959
noodge1968
anorak1984
society > society and the community > social relations > an association, society, or organization > types of association, society, or organization > [noun] > club > member > tiresome member
club bore1910
1910 H. G. Wells New Machiavelli (1911) iii. i. 309 Most clubs have a common link, a lowest common denominator in the Club Bore, who spares no one.
club spirit n.
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1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. i. v. 42 The Club-spirit is universal.
club system n.
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1846 Ld. Campbell Lives Chancellors V. clv. 489 When I myself first began the study of the law, the modern club system was unknown.
C3. Special combinations (in a few of which the verb stem seems to be the source). Also club-fist n., club-foot n., club-haul v., club-man n., club-moss n., etc. † club-grass n. Obsolete (a) = club-rush n.; (b) bookname for Corynephorus, a genus of rare grasses.† club-headpiece n. Obsolete† club-lome n. (also loom) Obsolete a weapon or tool consisting of a club.† club-musket n. Obsolete the use of a musket as a club.† club-weed n. Obsolete a name for Matfelon, or Knap-weed.
club antenna n. an antenna with a thickened or knobbed extremity.
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1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Club antennæ..of butterflies.
1885 Pall Mall Gaz. 3 Mar. 4/1 Brown creatures, each with six legs and a pair of club antennæ.
club armchair n. a thickly upholstered armchair of the type often found in clubs.
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1962 M. Kelly Due to Death v. 83 I have an affection for large comfortable lies. They're like club armchairs.
club car n. U.S. (a) originally a railroad coach provided with special facilities, and reserved for the use of the members of a club operated by the railroad company; (b) now, any passenger coach furnished with chairs rather than coach seats, and sometimes with other special facilities such as a buffet.
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society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [noun] > railway wagon or carriage > carriage designed to carry passengers > other types of passenger carriage
caravan1821
private car1826
Jim Crow car1835
ladies' car1841
saloon car or carriage1842
palace car1844
ladies' carriage1847
parliamentary carriage1849
parlour car1859
composite carriage1868
Pullman1869
observation car1872
first1873
compo1878
bogie carriage1880
chair-car1880
club car1893
corridor carriage1893
tourist-car1895
birdcage1900
dog box1905
corridor coach1911
vista-dome1945
Stolypin1970
1893 Engineering News II. 298/2 The Harlan & Hollingsworth Co...shows a ‘club’ car..on the Central R.R. of New Jersey. One side of the interior is fitted with chair seats.
1895 J. C. Wait Car-builder's Dict. (ed. 3) 31 Club car,..a buffet-parlor car built and owned by railroad companies but kept expressly as a private car for members of a club.
1926 T. W. Van Metre Trains, Tracks & Trav. v. 143 A combination baggage and passenger car is usually called a club car. The passenger compartment of a club car is often fitted with chairs instead of ordinary coach seats, and some of them are equipped with a buffet-broiler.
1948 New Yorker 25 Sept. 27/1 The new Twentieth Century club car has a shower, a barber, a valet, a service bar, [etc.].
1979 P. Theroux Old Patagonian Express i. 20 I went to the Club Car and had a morning pick-me-up.
club chair n.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > seat > chair > [noun] > armchair > other armchairs
great chair1749
porter's chair1806
sleepy-hollow chair1820
roundabout1834
Glastonbury chair1853
frowst1905
club chair1919
carver1927
1919 G. B. Shaw Heartbreak House Pref. in Heartbreak House, Great Catherine, & Playlets of War p. xxiii Fat old men, sitting comfortably in club chairs.
club class n. a class of fare between first class and tourist class on a passenger aircraft, etc., and designed esp. for the business traveller.
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society > travel > air or space travel > transport by air > [noun] > class of accommodation
tourist class1936
economy1958
economy class1958
tourist1976
club class1978
cattle class1983
1978 Times 15 June 4/7 Club class would be available to full economy-fare passengers and would be intended mainly for businessmen.
1985 Observer 14 Apr. (Colour Suppl.) 7/1 Alfa Romeo paid for everything from the British Airways club-class smoked salmon to the very superior class of shower cap at our luxury hotel.
club doctor n. the doctor provided by a benefit club.
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1872 ‘G. Eliot’ Middlemarch IV. vii. lxxi. 163 Doctor Gambit..is our club doctor.
1905 A. Bennett Tales of Five Towns i. 186 Will ye let your Lucy run quick for th' club doctor?
club-drub v. to beat.
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1875 R. Browning Aristophanes' Apol. 183 In dealing with King Multitude, Club-drub the callous numsculls!
club-ended adj. thickened or knobbed at the end.
club-farm n. a farm on co-operative principles.
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the world > food and drink > farming > farm > [noun] > collective or co-operative farm
club-farm1885
subak1897
collective farm1919
kolkhoz1921
sovkhoz1921
collective1925
moshav1927
kibbutz1929
agro-city1950
agro-town1950
agrogorod1951
agroville1960
nahal1963
1885 Duke of Argyll in Contemp. Rev. Oct. 477 Club-farms..are as yet, purely experimental.
club-feast n. (a) a feast at a club; (b) an annual gathering in connection with a benefit-club.
club-fender n. a large fender (fender n. 3a) with a padded top.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > seat > [noun] > other seats
desk1560
seat-arch1703
window seat1715
podium1722
sunkie1788
stab1805
screen1820
porch swing1891
club-fender1915
stuff-over1915
1915 E. Phillpotts Angel in House 11 The fireplace..has round it a club fender on which people may sit comfortably.
1917 G. B. Shaw What I really wrote about War (1931) 193 The whole thing was mere postprandial brag, war-game and club-fender gossip.
1959 House & Garden Sept. 69/1 Antique club-fender, brass with leather seat.
club-fungus n. a fungus belonging to the family Clavariaceæ.
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the world > plants > particular plants > fungi > [noun] > other fungi
bolet1526
boletus1601
byssus1753
fly-fungus1822
turban-top1828
stilbid1846
empusa1856
Scotch bonnet1861
wolf's-milk1861
lizard's herb1866
fairy ring1870
Malta fungus1870
flowers of tan1882
mycorrhiza1886
fumago1887
milky cap1887
moss-gold1887
oomycete1889
razor strop fungus1893
club-fungusa1909
sulphur tuft1909
bolete1914
old man of the woods1972
a1909 C. MacMillan Minn. Plant Life viii, in Cent. Dict. Suppl. (at cited word) Not all of the club-fungi are unbranched.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > reedy or aquatic grasses > [noun] > bulrush or club-rush
bulrushc1440
holrushc1440
glagol1480
cat's tail1548
reedmace1548
Typha1548
sun's brow1567
marsh beetle1578
marsh pestle1578
mat-rush1578
pole rush1578
water torch1578
water cat's-tail1597
ditch-down1611
doda1661
club-rush1677
deer-hair1777
club-grass1787
draw-ling1795
raupo1823
tule1837
boulder1847
blackheads1850
cat-o'-nine-tails1858
flax-tail1861
bull-sedge1879
mace reed1901
totora1936
1787 W. Withering Brit. Plants (1796) II. 73 Club-rush, Aglet-headed Rush, Common Club-grass.
club-hand n. a rare deformity of the hand, similar in nature to club-foot ( New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon).
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the world > health and disease > ill health > deformity > deformities of specific parts > [noun] > of hand
club-hand1870
claw-hand1879
main en griffe1881
Madelung's deformity1905
1870 T. Holmes Syst. Surg. (ed. 2) III. 667 This explanation does not apply to the Club-hands.
club-head n. a club-shaped or club-like head.
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1713 W. Derham Physico-theol. viii. vi. 423 In its Aurelia-State, it hath quite a different Body, with a Club-Head.
1891 H. G. Hutchinson Hints on Golf (ed. 6) 20 The club-head will, so, describe the arc not of a circle but an ellipse.
club-headed adj.
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1714 W. Derham Physico-theol. (ed. 2) iv. xiv. 251 Small club-headed Antennæ.
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1698 J. 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.
club-land n. see 15; (also clubland); hence, any area in which there is a large number of clubs; these clubs or their members collectively; also attributive.
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society > society and the community > social relations > an association, society, or organization > types of association, society, or organization > [noun] > club > area
club-land1885
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town or city > part of town or city > [noun] > other areas
friars1479
foreign1514
acropolis1570
sestiere1599
shopping district1837
downstreet1865
Latin Quarter1869
midtown1882
club-land1885
flat-land1889
brick area1895
turf1953
grey area1959
office park1963
bed-sitter-land1968
edge city1968
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.
1894 E. C. Brewer Dict. Phrase & Fable (1895) 264/2 Club-land, that part of the West End of London where the principal clubs are situated; the members of such clubs.
1912 ‘Saki’ Chron. Clovis 242 The brains of clubland were much exercised in seeking out possible merit.
1916 in H. Barnett Canon S.A. Barnett (1918) II. xxxiv. 72 The influence of Canon Barnett impressed itself strongly in East London clubland.
1953 R. Usborne Clubland Heroes 5 The heroes of the books I am examining were essentially West-End Clubmen, and their clubland status is a factor in their behaviour as individuals and groups.
1970 Guardian 22 Apr. 8/6 SET and rising land values in Central London are choking clubland like unwelcome smoke from a cheap cigar.
club leader n. a leader of a youth club.
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1889 in H. Barnett Canon S.A. Barnett (1918) II. xxxiv. 70 The work of club leaders lies in stimulating healthy political and social life.
1958 New Statesman 8 Feb. 181/1 The post of Full-time Club Leader as under: Richmond-Ham Youth Club.
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a1400 Sir Perc. 2053 The gyant with his clobe~lome Wolde hafe strekyne Percevelle sone.
club-master n. †(a) one who uses physical force; (b) the manager of a club.
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1662 J. Gauden in R. Hooker Wks. Ep. Ded. sig. A3v The many & long Tragedies suffered from those Club-masters and Tub-ministers.
ˈclubmobile n. [compare automobile n.] U.S. a large vehicle equipped to supply refreshments, recreational facilities, etc., to troops, workers in isolated areas, etc.
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1943 J. Steinbeck in N.Y. Herald Tribune 28 July 17/1 A clubmobile is parked, a bus converted into a kitchen for the cooking of doughnuts and coffee and run by two Red Cross girls.
1944 Amer. Speech 19 78/1 A Clubmobile, a miniature Red Cross club on wheels, was demonstrated March, 1943... It can be used as station wagon, stretcher, ambulance, or clubmobile.
club-money n. (a) money contributed towards a ‘club’ (cf. 10); (b) subscription to a benefit club or provident society; (c) money paid by a benefit club or provident society.
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society > trade and finance > payment > contribution > [noun] > money collected > to make up total sum
club1660
club-money1836
1836–48 B. D. Walsh tr. Aristophanes Comedies 114 (note) The person who managed the arrangements of the feast collected the club-money.
1888 19th Cent. Mar. 460 What about club money? I know you belong to a provident society.
1903 G. B. Shaw Man & Superman iii. 107 I saw a man die..a London bricklayer's labourer... He left seventeen pounds club money.
1913 D. H. Lawrence Love Poems 55 An' there's compensation, sin' it's accident, An' club money—I nedn't grouse.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of striking with specific blunt weapon > [noun] > use of musket as club
club-musket1677
1677 Earl of Orrery Treat. 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 n.]. club palm n.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > [noun] > palm-lily
cabbage tree1769
ti-tree1820
ti1832
cordyline1866
club palm1884
palm lily1884
1884 W. Miller Dict. Eng. Names Plants Cordyline, Club Palm, Palm-Lily.
club-root n. a disease of turnips, etc., anbury.
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the world > plants > disease or injury > [noun] > associated with particular type of plant > crop or food plant > vegetables > turnips or cabbages
anbury1742
fingers and toes1799
club1830
club-root1832
clubbing1836
brown-heart1950
1832 J. Baxter Libr. Agric. & Hort. Knowl. (ed. 2) 400 Unfounded popular prejudices about club-root, anbury, blight, honey-dew, &c.
1848 Hist. Berwickshire Naturalists' Club 2 No. vi. 326 The disease called fingers-and-toes, anbury, or club-root.
club sandwich n. originally U.S. a thick sandwich containing several ingredients, as chicken or turkey, lettuce, tomato, mayonnaise, etc.; also figurative.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > bread > bread with spread or filling > [noun] > sandwich > other sandwiches
cheese sandwich1828
bacon sandwich1858
cucumber sandwich1896
club sandwich1903
western sandwich1908
Reuben sandwich1927
poor boy1931
po' boy1932
hero1938
hero sandwich1939
foot-long1941
steak sandwich1941
sub1948
sub sandwich1948
submarine1949
BLT1952
panini1955
tuna sandwich1957
hoagie1967
muffuletta1967
gyro1971
PBJ1971
stotty1971
Philadelphia cheesesteak1977
Philly cheesesteak1982
banh mi1985
1903 R. L. McCardell Conversat. Chorus Girl 69 All we need is a club sandwich and a bottle of beer.
1945 New Yorker 25 Aug. 14 This is a club-sandwich sort of story, combining a hotel, a secretary, and an electric fan.
1966 ‘G. Black’ You want to die, Johnny? v. 88 It was a club sandwich, three layers.
Club Soda n. chiefly U.S. a proprietary name for a variety of soda-water; now also used generically.
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the world > food and drink > drink > aerated or carbonated drink > [noun] > soda water
soda-water1802
soda1834
Club Soda1877
sody1900
the world > food and drink > drink > aerated or carbonated drink > [noun] > proprietary drinks
Club Soda1877
Coca-Cola1887
Dr Pepper1895
Pepsi-Cola1903
Coke1909
Pepsi1916
seven-up1931
Aqua Libra1987
1877 Trade Marks Jrnl. 26 Dec. 1812/2 (in figure) Cantrell & Cochranes Super carbonated Club Soda (specially prepared) Works—Dublin & Belfast.
1906 Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 10 Apr. 1947/2 Cantrell & Cochrane, Limited, Dublin, Ireland, and New York, N.Y. Filed Sept. 1, 1905. Used ten years..Club soda.
1920 G. Ade Hand-made Fables 146 The Victim of the Club Soda Habit was saved from further Humiliation.
1983 N.Y. Times Mag. 28 Aug. 16 It [sc. soda] can also be a generic word for carbonated water, what others call club soda, clear soda, white soda or, in New York, seltzer.
club-start n. dialect names of the stoat.
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1877 F. Ross et al. Gloss. Words Holderness Club-start, a species of pole-cat.
club-tail n. (local U.S.), also, the common shad.
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1848 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms Clubtail. The common shad, the fatter portion of which have the tail swollen, and on the coast of Carolina, where they are taken, are called club-tails.
1877 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. Club-tail, a stoat.
club-tie n. a tie that binds a club of hair (cf. 6).
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1875 J. McCosh Sc. Philos. vii. 62 Cocked hats perched on powdered hair or wig with dangling clubtie or pigtail.
club-tooth n. a tooth of a wheel which is thicker towards the outer end.
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1884 F. J. Britten Watch & Clockmakers' Handbk. (new ed.) 62 Club Tooth, the form of tooth mostly used for lever escape wheels of foreign watches.
club-topsail n. a large topsail extended beyond the gaff by means of a small spar or ‘club’.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > sail > [noun] > topsail > gaff jackyard topsails
gaff-topsail1794
jackyard topsail1881
jackyarder1884
club-topsail1886
jib-header1899
1886 Outing 9 19/1 The Mohawk was lying..with all after canvas set, even to her enormous club top-sail.
club-walk n. a procession by the members of a local club or clubs; esp. the annual festival of a benefit club or friendly society.
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1936 G. M. Young Victorian Eng. xii. 77 The maypole had gone: the village feast and the club-walk were going.
club-walker n.
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1899 Daily News 23 May 2/3 The club walkers of the country.
club-walking n. see club-walk n.
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society > leisure > social event > festive occasion > specific festivities > [noun] > other festivities
hoppingc1330
hocking1406
church ale1448
bid-alec1462
kirk-ale1543
maids' ale1547
quaff-tide1582
help-ale1587
clerk-ale1627
Chinese New Year1704
Rasa-yatra1767
spring festival1788
souling1813
gooding1818
walking day1826
yatra1827
triacontaëterid1839
pwe1842
Thomasing1847
hocking-ale1854
Mary-ale1857
Oktoberfest1859
Marymass1866
club-walking1874
Lag b'Omer1874
full moon festival1876
beerfest1877
Tanabata1880
Moon Festival1892
bierfest1908
sausage fest1908
Zar1931
rara1941
mas'1956
molimo1960
Kwanzaa1970
1874 T. Hardy Far from Madding Crowd II. iii. 39 There were..more people all the week long than at Weatherbury club-walking on White Tuesdays.
1891 T. Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles I. ii. 15 The May-Day dance..was to be discerned…in the guise of the club revel, or ‘club-walking’, as it was there called.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants perceived as weeds or harmful plants > weed > [noun] > knapweed
ironhardOE
matfellon?a1300
hardhawa1400
bull-weeda1450
club-weeda1500
knapweed1530
crop-weed1597
hardhead1610
horse-knop1691
horse-knob1724
buttonweed1760
knobweed1785
ironweed1808
knotweed1827
ironhead1863
a1500 Gloss. in Archæol. xxx. 405 Clubbe-weed, Matfelon.
club-wheat n. a variety of wheat.
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1850 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Patents 1849: Agric. 181 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (31st Congr., 1st Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc. 20, Pt. 2) VI The club wheat, which has a remarkably stiff straw.
1861 Trans. Illinois State Agric. Soc. 1859–60 4 317 A neighbour tried shrunk club wheat for seed.
1888 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 2nd Ser. 24 57 The prices of No. 2 Club wheat at Calcutta.
club-woman n. originally U.S. a woman who is a member or habituée of a club or clubs.
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society > society and the community > social relations > an association, society, or organization > types of association, society, or organization > [noun] > club > member > woman
club-woman1895
1895 S. Hale Lett. (1919) 294 She..is a ‘club-woman’,—and she early secured me to ‘attend a meeting’ of her club.
1904 Daily Chron. 8 Oct. 8/4 There is no fear that the English clubwoman will ever oust the home-loving woman from her place.
1962 Punch 25 Apr. 637/1 My wife, a brand new club-woman with her subscription barely dry on my cheque~book counterfoil.
club-wood n. a name of casuarina n.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > [noun] > casuarinas
club-wood1777
oak tree1789
toa1792
casuarina1806
tree horsetail1884
1777 G. Forster Voy. round World II. 18 Their weapons were all made of the club-wood, or casuarina.
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colloquial (often humorous). join the club: (used to acknowledge that one shares the esp. unwelcome feeling or predicament just described) ‘me too’, ‘you're not the only one’.
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1973 P. O. Donnell Silver Mistress viii. 146 ‘Do you have the feeling that..you'll wake up at home any minute?’ ‘You too?.. Join the club.’
1984 San Diego Union-Tribune (Nexis) 27 July c1 The explanation of how this little Formica heaven came to locate in a former plumbing warehouse in La Jolla comes from owner Giovanni Ronci. And if that name throws you, join the club.
1993 S. Hutson Heathen (BNC) 251 ‘I'll tell you something, I'm scared and I don't mind admitting it.’ ‘Join the club’, Donna said flatly.
2001 L. Rennison Knocked out by Nunga-nungas 83 Ellen didn't know, she was in a state of confusiosity. Join the club, I say.
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club kid n. originally and chiefly U.S. a young person who attends or belongs to a club; spec. one who frequents night clubs, esp. dressing and behaving in a provocative or extreme manner or style.
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1985 Chicago Tribune (Nexis) 18 Feb. 24d It was frustrating for the freshmen..who were starting to succeed individually, and then the club kids came in.
1993 Urb 7 July 47/1 Call the Club Kids... Their fashion—colorful and eclectic, glamorous to gruesome—affects what you wear as high fashion designers look to them for creative inspiration.
2001 C. Glazebrook Madolescents 301 He's gone for the total NY Club Kid look, a spider's web sloppy top, latex pedal-pushers and stilettos.
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clubv.
/klʌb/, U.S. /kləb/ 1. transitive. To beat with a club or as with a club; to knock down or kill with a club.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of striking with specific blunt weapon > strike with specific blunt weapon [verb (transitive)]
mellc1440
wapper1481
bebat1565
rib-roast1570
batonc1580
flail1582
club1593
bastonate1596
cudgel1598
rib-baste1598
shrub1599
truncheon1600
cut1607
scutch1611
macea1634
batoon1683
towel1705
quarterstaff1709
pole1728
handspike1836
blackjack1847
bludgeon1868
sandbag1887
cosh1922
sap1926
pistol-whip1930
knuckle-dust1962
1593 [implied in: Tell-Trothes New-yeares Gift (1876) 20 Knauish Ielosy should be requited with clubbing iniury. (at clubbing n. 1)].
1641 J. Burroughes Moses his Choice 748 In the Originall it is, I beate my body black and blew, I club it downe.
a1661 B. Holyday tr. Juvenal Satyres (1673) Sat. ix. 170 He'l..clubb my brains out.
1699 Sir T. Morgan's Progr. France & Flanders in Coll. Scarce & Valuable Tracts (1751) III. 158 The strongest Soldiers and Officers clubbing them down.
1720 D. Defoe Mem. Cavalier 217 They fell to battering us with the Stocks of their Musquets... We..despised this way of clubbing us.
1753 W. Douglass Brit. Settlem. N. Amer. 280 People forceably turned them out of Possession of their Lands: this they call clubing them out.
1886 R. L. Stevenson Strange Case Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde iv. 37 Mr. Hyde broke out of all bounds and clubbed him to the earth.
1887 Spectator 4 June 760/1 The rioters clubbed the horses on the face.
2. to club a musket: to use the butt-end of it as a club. (Cf. club-musket n. at club n. Compounds 3.)
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of striking with specific blunt weapon > use specific blunt weapon [verb (intransitive)] > use musket as club
to club a musket1807
1807 J. Barlow Columbiad vii. 261 Reseize the musket bare, Club the broad breech, and headlong whirl to war.
1843 C. J. Lever Jack Hinton (1878) vi. 36 Muskets were clubbed or bayonets fixed.
1876 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People viii. 540 The Royalist foot, after a single discharge, clubbed their muskets and fell on the centre under Fairfax.
3. To gather or form into a club-like mass; spec. to dress the hair into a club (cf. club n. 6).
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > beautify (the hair) [verb (transitive)] > braid
tress?a1366
browd1386
broidc1405
braid1530
border1585
entrammel1598
snake1653
queue1754
cue1774
club1779
trace1832
weave1884
1625 [implied in: S. Purchas Pilgrimes ii. iii. §6 The Pongoes..so beate them with their clubbed fists. (at clubbed adj. 4)].
1779 T. Forrest Voy. New Guinea 20 They..wore their hair clubbed, atop, Chinese fashion.
1790 Coll. Voy. round World V. xi. 1798 The females..tie a lock of it on the crown, while a few, after our custom, club it behind.
1865 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia VI. xxi. iv. 471 He wears his hair..clubbed, and dressed with a high toupee.
4. To collect, gather together, or combine into one mass or body, to mass.
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the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > gather together [verb (transitive)] > gather in one mass or form lumps
wholec1443
consolidate1511
clod1530
thicken?1578
contract1620
acervate1623
lump1624
bundlea1628
club1641
to lump together (occasionally up)1692
commassate1694
slump1822
pack1824
1641 J. Milton Reason Church-govt. 41 Fain to club quotations with men whose learning and beleif lies in marginal stuffings.
1828 E. Irving Last Days 137 The unholy church, which clubbeth certain into a religious world, and treateth the rest as if they were under the sentence of excommunication.
1883 Manch. Examiner 24 Oct. 5/1 Clubbing together the contingents of these six counties.
1884 J. Payn Thicker than Water xvi. 125 London which is equal to half a dozen great towns clubbed together.
5.
a. intransitive. To form themselves into a club or mass.
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the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > gather together [verb (intransitive)] > collect in one mass or body
cluba1657
a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Richard II xli, in Poems (1878) III. 147 The high renowne Of Citty's valours Clubb'd into his Den.
1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge 87 Two such worlds must club together and become one.
1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. ii. 97 They could sensibly perceive them [i.e. the oblong particles] to gather together, and club to make greater bodies.
1862 C. A. Johns Brit. Birds 350 At this season the old Black Cocks club together.
b. Of shot fired from a gun: To keep together in a mass or cluster instead of scattering. (Said also of the gun.)
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > discharge firearms [verb (intransitive)] > actions of bullet or shot
ricochet1804
club1830
cluster1830
strip1854
upset1859
slug1875
keyhole1878
group1882
string1892
mushroom1893
splash1894
to set up1896
phut1901
pattern1904
print1961
1830 Mechanics' Mag. 13 420 Clubbing or balling is supposed by many to occur only with cartridges..all guns are liable to club or cluster (which..is similar to firing several bullets or slugs).
6. transitive. To conjoin, combine, or put together into a common stock, or to a common end.
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society > society and the community > social relations > association for a common purpose > associate with for common purpose [verb (transitive)] > bring into association
allyc1325
confeder1380
sociea1387
associate1398
sociate1485
companya1500
band1530
confederate1532
aggregate1534
colleague1535
join1560
enter1563
bandy1597
league1611
colligate1613
club1656
fraternize1656
federalize1787
brigade1831
1656 S. Holland Don Zara iii. i. 140 They saw the Fish-finders corroborated in one lump, clubbing all their nets and strength to boot.
1656 F. Beale tr. G. Greco Royall Game Chesse-play 1 Some of the most learned and experienced besiegers, meeting and clubbing their inventions together.
1695 J. Collier Misc. upon Moral Subj. 76 How they should club their particular Informations into a common Idea, is inconceivable.
1700 W. King Transactioneer ii. 34 We club Notions, laying them up in a kind of Joynt-Stock.
1841 T. Carlyle On Heroes iv. 233 They clubbed their small means together.
7. intransitive. To combine together (or with others) in joint action; to combine as partners or as members of a club n. (sense 12).
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society > society and the community > social relations > an association, society, or organization > types of association, society, or organization > [verb (intransitive)] > combine as a club
club1652
1652 R. Brome Joviall Crew Ep. Ded. sig. A2 Fortune and Nature scarce ever club'd so well.
1659 W. Charleton Ephesian Matron 94 Convinced of her impotency to clubb with him in the act of procreation.
1672 A. Marvell Rehearsal Transpros'd i. 44 Those two that clubb'd with Mahomet in making the Alchoran.
1704 W. King Mully of Mountown Oh! may thy codlins ever swim in Cream!.. Thy White-wine, Sugar, Milk, together club, To make that gentle viand Syllabub.
?1706 E. Hickeringill Priest-craft: 2nd Pt. vi. 62 (Subtle Rebekkah) that club'd with her beloved Son Jacob, to Cheat..his own Father and Brother.
1767 B. Franklin Let. 14 Sept. in Wks. (1887) IV. 35 Perhaps, as in some other cases, different causes may club in producing the effect.
1829 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 26 914 They were endeavouring, by clubbing and caballing, to make themselves perpetual petty despots.
8.
a. To combine in making up a sum (as the cost or expense of an entertainment, etc.) by a number of individual contributions; to go shares in the cost of anything. Const. with others, for an object.
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society > trade and finance > payment > contribution > contribute [verb (intransitive)]
contributea1610
club1655
to club together1840
slump1849
to chip in1861
1655 R. Younge Blemish of Govt. 18 Who constantly clubs it, first for his mornings draught, secondly at Exchange time, thirdly at night when shops are shut in.
1662 S. Pepys Diary 24 Nov. (1970) III. 266 How he did endeavour to find out a ninepence to club with me for the coach.
1677 A. Yarranton England's Improvem. 99 As I have club'd with you for Supper, so I pray let me club a little with you in Discourse.
1709 Tatler No. 137. ⁋3 We resolved to club for a Coach.
a1734 R. North Lives of Norths II. 175 These Six-clerks clubbed and made a present to his lordship of £1000.
1883 A. Dobson Old World Idylls 20 Timorous cits on their pilgrimage Would ‘club’ for a ‘Guard’ to ride the stage.
b. to club together.
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society > trade and finance > payment > contribution > contribute [verb (intransitive)]
contributea1610
club1655
to club together1840
slump1849
to chip in1861
1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xxvi. 87 Several of us clubbed together and bought a large piece of twilled cotton.
1860 G. J. Adler tr. C. C. Fauriel Hist. Provençal Poetry v. 75 Other cities..clubbed together to support a professor in common.
1889 Boy's Own Paper 10 Aug. 714/1 We..clubbed together to purchase an American clock.
9. transitive. To contribute (as one's share) towards a common stock. Also absol.
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the mind > possession > giving > give [verb (transitive)] > contribute
confer1528
battel1600
club1632
contribute1653
collate1655
1632 R. Sherwood Dict. in R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues (new ed.) To clubbe, mettre ou despendre à l'egual d'un autre.
1670 S. Wilson Lassels's Voy. Italy (new ed.) Pref. sig. ī.iij Though yong men be not able to..clubb wit equally with these men.
1691 J. Ray Wisdom of God 218 Indeed every part of the Body seems to club and contribute to the Seed.
1694 P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais Pantagruel's Voy.: 4th Bk. Wks. iv. xx. 88 Let every Man club his penny towards it.
1743 R. Blair Grave 25 And yet ne'er Yonker on the Green laughs louder, Or clubs a Smuttier Tale.
1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random I. xxiii. 212 This scheme, towards the execution of which my companion clubbed her wardrobe.
1831 A. W. Fonblanque Eng. under Seven Admin. (1837) II. 173 At the public-house he would club his mite with others for a tune.
10.
a. To make up, put together (a sum) by joint contributions.
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a1764 R. Lloyd Author's Apol. in Poems How Virgil, Horace, Ovid join, And club together half a line.
1847 L. Hunt Men, Women, & Bks. I. ix. 143 They..clubbed up a comfortable maintenance for the prebendary's widow.
1863 H. Fawcett Man. Polit. Econ. ii. x. 278 Why should we not club together sufficient..to purchase a chest of tea and a hogshead of sugar..?
b. To defray by a proportional charge upon each individual liable; as ‘to club the expense’.
11. Military (transitive) To throw (a body of soldiers) into a confused and disorganized mass. Also as a figurative expression to club the battalion: see quots.
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society > armed hostility > military operations > distribution of troops > formation > form (line, column, etc.) [verb (transitive)] > stand in line with > cause to fall out of line
disray1300
disarraya1387
disrange1485
disrank1609
stagger1720
club1806
1806 W. Windham Speeches Parl. 3 Apr. (1812) II. 334 There is an expression known in the army, applicable to what happens sometimes under an unlucky field-officer, and is called ‘clubbing the battalion’.
1806 W. Windham Speeches Parl. 3 Apr. (1812) II. 335 The Honourable Gentlemen..have completely ‘clubbed the battalion’.
1847 W. M. Thackeray Philip Fogarty in Burlesques ii In one instant thirty thousand men were in inextricable confusion. ‘Clubbed, by Jabers!’ roared out Lanty Clancy.
1863 A. W. Kinglake Invasion of Crimea II. xvi. 326 The force, though clubbed and broken into clusters of men.
12. Nautical. To drift down a current with an anchor out.
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1849 J. Weale Rudim. Dict. Terms Archit. i. 104/1 Clubbing, drifting down a current with an anchor out.
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intransitive. colloquial. To visit or go to a nightclub or nightclubs, esp. to dance. Usually in present participle, esp. in to go (out) clubbing. Cf. earlier clubbing n. and nightclub v.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > nightlife > [verb]
nightclub1929
club1975
1975 New Rev. May 22/2 Took him ‘clubbing’ the first evening... ‘About four night-clubs.’
1987 Sunday Times 4 Oct. (Colour Suppl.) 102/3 If we're going out, we tend to go clubbing in Glasgow, which is where I'm from.
1992 Daily Tel. 24 Mar. 4 We are not a glitzy duo who go out clubbing every night.
1995 Alternative Press May 47/3 They were the first of the ‘baggy’ bands, combining rock and dance music into a new, sweaty whole that raved and clubbed and lived on Ecstasy.
2000 Sunday Herald (Glasgow) 6 Aug. 11/2 Students, neds, lawyers, yuppies, they all go clubbing.
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v.1593- to break forth
- to break from
- to break ground
- to break her foil
- to break her sheer
- to break herd
- to break in
- to break in(to fitters
- to bumble along
- to bump along the bottom
- to bump and bore
- to bump into
- to bump nasties
- to bump off
- to bump pussies
- to bump uglies
- to bump up
- to bung up the eyes
- to bunk down
- to bunk it
- to burden out
- to burn a bowl
- to burn a building down
- to burn a country
- tire-room