club | Lernwerd

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1.A heavy object, often a kind of stick, intended for use as a bludgeoning weapon or a plaything.
- I am not a member of the club.
- Does Tom belong to the club you're in?
- Tom is in a book club.
2.An association of members joining together for some common purpose, especially sports or recreation.
- He can have no right to the benefits of Society, who will not pay his Club towards the Support of it.
3.A joint charge of expense, or any person's share of it; a contribution to a common fund.
- They laid down the Club.
4.An establishment that provides staged entertainment, often with food and drink, such as a nightclub.
- She was sitting in a jazz club, sipping wine and listening to a bass player's solo.

1.To score a victory over by a large margin.
2.To join together to form a group.
- Till grosser atoms, tumbling in the stream / Of fancy, madly met, and clubb'd into a dream.
3.To hit with a club.
- "We must club the seals," I announced, when convinced of my poor marksmanship. "I have heard the sealers talk about clubbing them."
- He clubbed the poor dog.
4.To combine into a club-shaped mass.

Common· #958

Inherited from Middle English clubbe, from Old Norse klubba, klumba (“cudgel”), from Proto-Germanic *klumpô (“clip, clasp; clump, lump; log, block”).