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club

  [kluhb] noun, verb, clubbed, club⋅bing, adjective
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–noun
1. a heavy stick, usually thicker at one end than at the other, suitable for use as a weapon; a cudgel.
2. a group of persons organized for a social, literary, athletic, political, or other purpose: They organized a computer club.
3. the building or rooms occupied by such a group.
4. an organization that offers its subscribers certain benefits, as discounts, bonuses, or interest, in return for regular purchases or payments: a book club; a record club; a Christmas club.
5. Sports.
a. a stick or bat used to drive a ball in various games, as golf.
b. Indian club.
6. a nightclub or cabaret: Last night we went to all the clubs in town.
7. a black trefoil-shaped figure on a playing card.
8. a card bearing such figures.
9. clubs, (used with a singular or plural verb) the suit so marked: Clubs is trump. Clubs are trump.
10. club sandwich.
11. Nautical.
a. a short spar attached to the end of a gaff to allow the clew of a gaff topsail to extend beyond the peak of the gaff.
b. a short spar attached to the truck of a mast to support the upper part of a club topsail.
c. clubfoot (def. 3).
–verb (used with object)
12. to beat with or as with a club.
13. to gather or form into a clublike mass.
14. to unite; combine; join together.
15. to contribute as one's share toward a joint expense; make up by joint contribution (often fol. by up or together): They clubbed their dollars together to buy the expensive present.
16. to defray by proportional shares.
17. to hold (a rifle, shotgun, etc.) by the barrel, so as to use the stock as a club.
–verb (used without object)
18. to combine or join together, as for a common purpose.
19. to attend a club or a club's activities.
20. to gather into a mass.
21. to contribute to a common fund.
22. Nautical. to drift in a current with an anchor, usually rigged with a spring, dragging or dangling to reduce speed.
–adjective
23. of or pertaining to a club.
24. consisting of a combination of foods offered at the price set on the menu: They allow no substitutions on the club luncheon.
Origin:
1175–1225; ME clubbe < ON klubba club; akin to clump

Synonyms:
1. bludgeon, billy. 2, 4. association, society. See circle. 12. bludgeon, batter, maul, cudgel.
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club⋅foot

  [kluhb-foot]
–noun, plural -feet for 1.
1. a congenitally deformed or distorted foot.
2. the condition of having such a foot; talipes.
3. Also called club. Nautical. a short boom for fastening to the foot of a jib.
Origin:
1530–40; club + foot

Related forms:
clubfooted, adjective
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club   (klŭb)   
n.  

  1. A stout heavy stick, usually thicker at one end, suitable for use as a weapon; a cudgel.

  2. Sports An implement used in some games to drive a ball, especially a stick with a protruding head used in golf.

  3. Games

    1. A black figure shaped like a trefoil or clover leaf on certain playing cards.

    2. A playing card with this figure.

    3. clubs (used with a sing. or pl. verb) The suit of cards represented by this figure.

  4. A group of people organized for a common purpose, especially a group that meets regularly: a garden club.

  5. The building, room, or other facility used for the meetings of an organized group.

  6. Sports An athletic team or organization.

  7. A nightclub.

v.   clubbed, club·bing, clubs

v.   tr.

  1. To strike or beat with or as if with a club.

  2. To use (a firearm) as a club by holding the barrel and hitting with the butt end.

  3. To gather or combine (hair, for example) into a clublike mass.

  4. To contribute to a joint or common purpose.

v.   intr.
To join or combine for a common purpose; form a club.

[Middle English, from Old Norse klubba.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Word Origin & History

club 
1205, from O.N. klubba "cudgel," from P.Gmc. *klumbon; the sense "to associate" is first attested 1670, apparently for "form a mass like the thick end of a club." Specific sense of "bat used in games" is from c.1450. The club at cards (1563) is the right name for the suit (It. bastone), even though the pattern adopted is the Fr. trefoil. Club sandwich first recorded 1903; club soda is 1877, originally a proprietary name. Club-foot is from 1538.
"I got a good mind to join a club and beat you over the head with it." [Rufus T. Firefly]
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: club·foot
Pronunciation: 'kl&b-'fut
Function: noun
Inflected Form: plural club·feet /-'fEt/
1 : any of numerous congenital deformities of the foot in which it is twisted out of position or shape called also talipes; —compare TALIPES EQUINOVARUS, TALIPES EQUINUS, TALIPES VALGUS, TALIPES VARUS
2 : a foot affected with clubfoot —club·foot·ed /-'fut-&d/ adjective
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Medical Dictionary

clubfoot club·foot (klŭb'f&oobreve;t')
n.
A congenital deformity of the foot, usually characterized by a curled shape or a twisted position of the ankle, heel, and toes. Also called talipes.

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