There were many wooden chairs for the bulk of his visitors, and two wicker armchairs with red cloth cushions for superior people. From the packing-cases had emerged some Indianclubs,[…], and all these articles[…] made a scattered and untidy decoration that Mrs. Clough assiduously dusted and greatly cherished.
2021 March 10, Drachinifel, 5:50 from the start, inGuadalcanal Campaign - The Big Night Battle: Night 1 (IJN 3(?) : 2 USN)[2], archived fromthe original on17 October 2022:
The attack also affordedHelena to a front-seat view ofliteral air-to-air melee combat, as one Wildcat pilot of the Cactus Air Force, who was swooping in to help break up the attack, found himself out of machine-gun ammo; instead, he dropped his landing gear, positioned himself above the nearest bomber, and begunbeating it to death, in midair, using his landing gear asclubs. After a bit of evasive action that the fighter easily kept up with, the repeated slamming broke something important, and the bomber spiralled down into the sea.
(countable,golf) An implement to hit the ball in certain ball games, such asgolf.
At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors.[…]In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, aclub, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.
(archaic) The fees associated with belonging to such a club.
2019, Tony Perrottet, “A Deep Dive Into the Plans to Take Tourists to the ‘Titanic’”, inSmithsonian Magazine:
He also wanted to be only the second person to travel solo to at least that depth, the other being James Cameron, who in 2012 took an Australian-built sub into the Mariana Trench, reaching Challenger Deep, the ocean’s deepest point, touching down at close to 36,000 feet. “That’s a niceclub to be a part of,” Rush says. Two weeks later, thatclub welcomed a new member, when a Texas businessman named Victor Vescovo reached 27,000 feet in his own experimental submersible.
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2016 June 3, “Andy Murray enjoys stunning win against Stan Wawrinka to reach first French Open final”, inEurosport[4]:
[Andy] Murray dropped serve only once in the match, in the 10th game of the third set, and was simply too good for[Stan] Wawrinka, who was left confused by the variety, inventiveness and power hitting of Murray from deep in the court as an opponent whoclubbed[Novak] Djokovic in last year's final was simply overwhelmed despite the Parisian crowd attempting to inspire a comeback.
2019 January 16, “Ashleigh Barty loses coach but wins latest Australian Open encounter”, inThe Guardian[5]:
Playing with freedom and no fear,Ashleigh Barty has powered into theAustralian Open third round without even a coach. Bartyclubbed China’sYafan Wang 6-2, 6-3 on Wednesday before revealing she had been largely flying solo during her charge to the last 32 for only the second time.
(military) To throw, or allow to fall, into confusion.
1876, Major-General G. E. Voyle; Captain G. De Saint-Clair-Stevenson, F.R.G.S.,A Military Dictionary, Comprising Terms, Scientific and Otherwise, Connected with the Science of War, Third Edition, London: William Clowes & Sons, page80:
Toclub 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.
(transitive) To unite, or contribute, for the accomplishment of a common end.
For instance, let us suppose that Homer and Virgil, Aristotle and Cicero, Thucydides and Livy, could have met all together, and haveclubbed their several talents to have composed a treatise on the art of dancing: I believe it will be readily agreed they could not have equalled the excellent treatise which Mr Essex hath given us on that subject, entitled, The Rudiments of Genteel Education.
1854,The Eclectic Review, page147:
You see a person, who, added to yourself, would make, you think, a glorious being, and you proceed to idealize accordingly; you stand on his head, and outtower the tallest; youclub your brains with his, and are wiser than the wisest; you add the heat of your heart to his, and produce a very furnace of love.
^Lighter, Jonathan (1972), “The Slang of the American Expeditionary Forces in Europe, 1917-1919: An Historical Glossary”, inAmerican Speech[1], volume47, number1/2, page34
2019 January 21, Pablo Vande Rusten, “Diez razones para practicar fútbol americano (¡en España!)”, inEl País[9], archived fromthe original on23 September 2025:
“A principios de los 90 losclubes creamos una liga nacional, la SFL (Spanish Football League), que no funcionó”, relata el presidente del equipo, Enrique Martín.
2024 November 8, Kaitlan Collins, “Batallas desde el patio de Mar-a-Lago: cómo el equipo de Trump compite por los puestos”, inCNN en Español[10]:
Esas conversaciones en voz baja se convirtieron ahora en una auténtica batalla que se desarrolla directamente desde el patio delclub Mar-a-Lago de Trump en Palm Beach, Florida.
