Club : (noun)
1: a team of professional baseball players who play and travel
together; "each club played six home games with teams in
its own division" [syn: baseball club, ball club, nine]
2: a formal association of people with similar interests; "he
joined a golf club"; "they formed a small lunch society";
"men from the fraternal order will staff the soup kitchen
today" [syn: society, guild, gild, lodge, order]
3: stout stick that is larger at one end; "he carried a club in
self defense"; "he felt as if he had been hit with a club"
4: a building occupied by a club; "the clubhouse needed a new
roof" [syn: clubhouse]
5: golf equipment used by a golfer to hit a golf ball [syn: golf
club, golf-club]
6: a playing card in the minor suit of clubs (having one or
more black trefoils on it); "he led a small club"; "clubs
were trumps"
7: a spot that is open late at night and that provides
entertainment (as singers or dancers) as well as dancing
and food and drink; "don't expect a good meal at a
cabaret"; "the gossip columnist got his information by
visiting nightclubs every night"; "he played the drums at
a jazz club" [syn: cabaret, nightclub, nightspot]
(verb)
1: unite with a common purpose; "The two men clubbed together"
2: gather and spend time together; "They always club together"
3: strike with a club or a bludgeon [syn: bludgeon]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Debating \De*bat"ing\, n.
The act of discussing or arguing; discussion.
Debating society or club, a society orClub : for the
purpose of debate and improvement in extemporaneous
speaking.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Club : \Club\, v. i.
1. To form a club; to combine for the promotion of some
common object; to unite.
Till grosser atoms, tumbling in the stream Of fancy,
madly met, and clubbed into a dream. --Dryden.
2. To pay on equal or proportionate share of a common charge
or expense; to pay for something by contribution.
The owl, the raven, and the bat, Clubbed for a
feather to his hat. --Swift.
3. (Naut.) To drift in a current with an anchor out.
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Club : \Club\, n. [CF. Icel. klubba, klumba, club, klumbuf?ir a
clubfoot, SW. klubba club, Dan. klump lump, klub a club, G.
klumpen clump, kolben club, and E. clump.]
1. A heavy staff of wood, usually tapering, and wielded the
hand; a weapon; a cudgel.
But make you ready your stiff bats and clubs; Rome
and her rats are at the point of battle. --Shak.
2. [Cf. the Spanish name bastos, and Sp. baston staff, club.]
Any card of the suit of cards having a figure like the
trefoil or clover leaf. (pl.) The suit of cards having
such figure.
3. An association of persons for the promotion of some common
object, as literature, science, politics, good fellowship,
etc.; esp. an association supported by equal assessments
or contributions of the members.
They talked At wine, in clubs, of art, of politics.
--Tennyson.
He [Goldsmith] was one of the nine original members
of that celebrated fraternity which has sometimes
been called the Literary Club, but which has always
disclaimed that epithet, and still glories in the
simple name of the Club. --Macaulay.
4. A joint charge of expense, or any person's share of it; a
contribution to a common fund.
They laid down the club. --L'Estrange.
We dined at a French house, but paid ten shillings
for our part of the club. --Pepys.
Club law, government by violence; lynch law; anarchy.
--Addison.
Club moss (Bot.), an evergreen mosslike plant, much used in
winter decoration. The best know species is Lycopodium
clavatum, but other Lycopodia are often called by this
name. The spores form a highly inflammable powder.
Club root (Bot.), a disease of cabbages, by which the roots
become distorted and the heads spoiled.
Club topsail (Naut.), a kind of gaff topsail, used mostly
by yachts having a fore-and-aft rig. It has a short
``club'' or ``jack yard'' to increase its spread.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Club : \Club\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Clubbed; p. pr. & vb. n.
Clubbing.]
1. To beat with a club.
2. (Mil.) To throw, or allow to fall, into confusion.
To club a battalion implies a temporary inability in
the commanding officer to restore any given body of
men to their natural front in line or column.
--Farrow.
3. To unite, or contribute, for the accomplishment of a
common end; as, to club exertions.
4. To raise, or defray, by a proportional assesment; as, to
club the expense.
To club a musket (Mil.), to turn the breach uppermost, so
as to use it as a club.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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CLUB. An association of persons.It differs from a partnership in this, that
the members of aClub : have no authority to bind each other further than they
are authorized, either expressly or by implication, as each other's agents
in the particular transaction; whereas in trading associations, or common
partnerships, one partner may bind his co-partners, as each has a right of
property in the whole. 2 Mees. & Welsh. 172; Colly, Partn. 31; Story, Partn.
144; Wordsworth on Joint Stock Companies, 154, et seq.; 6 W. & S. 67; 3, W.
& S. 118.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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