club

club
    n 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},
         {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: {club}, {social club}, {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 that is occupied by a social club; "the clubhouse
       needed a new roof" [syn: {clubhouse}, {club}]
    5: golf equipment used by a golfer to hit a golf ball [syn:
       {golf club}, {golf-club}, {club}]
    6: a playing card in the minor suit that has 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}, {night club}, {club}, {nightspot}]
    v 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: {club}, {bludgeon}]
    4: gather into a club-like mass; "club hair"
    

Club \Club\ (kl[u^]b), n. [Cf. Icel. klubba, klumba, club,
   klumbuf[=o]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 with
      the hand; a weapon; a cudgel.
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            But make you ready your stiff bats and clubs;
            Rome and her rats are at the point of battle.
                                                  --Shak.
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   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.
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   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.
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            They talked
            At wine, in clubs, of art, of politics. --Tennyson.
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            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.
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   4. A joint charge of expense, or any person's share of it; a
      contribution to a common fund.
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            They laid down the club.              --L'Estrange.
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            We dined at a French house, but paid ten shillings
            for our part of the club.             --Pepys.
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   {Club law}, government by violence; lynch law; anarchy.
      --Addison. 
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   {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.
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Club \Club\ (kl[u^]b), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Clubbed} (kl[u^]bd);
   p. pr. & vb. n. {Clubbing}.]
   1. To beat with a club.
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   2. (Mil.) To throw, or allow to fall, into confusion.
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            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.
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   3. To unite, or contribute, for the accomplishment of a
      common end; as, to club exertions.
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   4. To raise, or defray, by a proportional assesment; as, to
      club the expense.
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   {To club a musket} (Mil.), to turn the breach uppermost, so
      as to use it as a club.
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Club \Club\, v. i.
   1. To form a club; to combine for the promotion of some
      common object; to unite.
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            Till grosser atoms, tumbling in the stream
            Of fancy, madly met, and clubbed into a dream.
                                                  --Dryden.
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   2. To pay on equal or proportionate share of a common charge
      or expense; to pay for something by contribution.
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            The owl, the raven, and the bat,
            Clubbed for a feather to his hat.     --Swift.
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   3. (Naut.) To drift in a current with an anchor out.
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CLUB. An association of persons.It differs from a partnership in this, that 
the members of a club 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. 
    

222 Moby Thesaurus words for "club":
      Elizabethan theater, Globe Theatre, Greek theater, affiliate,
      agate, alliance, ally, amphitheater, arena theater, associate,
      association, auditorium, ball, band together, baseball bat, baste,
      bastinado, bat, baths, baton, battering ram, battledore, bauble,
      be in cahoots, beat, belabor, belt, billy, billy club, birch,
      blackjack, blocks, bludgeon, brotherhood, buffet, bunch, bunch up,
      cabal, cabaret, cane, casino, cement a union, centralize,
      checkerboard, chessboard, circle theater, club together, clubhouse,
      cockhorse, combine, come together, company, concert hall,
      confederate, confraternity, confrerie, consociate, consortium,
      conspire, cooperate, cosh, country club, couple, cowhide,
      cricket bat, cudgel, cue, cut, doll, doll carriage, drub,
      federalize, federate, federation, fellowship, ferule, flagellate,
      flail, flog, fraternal order, fraternity, fustigate,
      gambling house, gang, gang up, gathering place, gewgaw, gimcrack,
      give a whipping, give the stick, go in partners, go in partnership,
      golf club, guild, hall, hangout, haunt, health resort, hobbyhorse,
      hook up with, horsewhip, house, jack-in-the-box, jacks, jackstones,
      jackstraws, join forces, join fortunes with, join together,
      join up with, join with, kickshaw, knickknack, knobkerrie, knout,
      lace, lambaste, lash, lay on, league, life preserver,
      little theater, lodge, mace, marble, marionette, marry,
      meeting place, mig, morning star, music hall, night spot,
      nightclub, nightstick, opera, opera house, order, organization,
      organize, outdoor theater, paddle, pair, pair off, pandybat,
      paper doll, partner, pick-up sticks, pinwheel, pistol-whip,
      playhouse, plaything, pommel, pummel, puppet, purlieu,
      quarterstaff, racket, rag doll, rallying point, ram, rattan,
      rawhide, resort, rocking horse, rod, ruler, sandbag, scourge,
      secret society, shillelagh, showboat, sisterhood, smite, society,
      sodality, sorority, spa, spank, spontoon, sport, springs, staff,
      stamping ground, stand together, stand up with, stave, steelie,
      stick, strap, stripe, swinge, switch, taw, team up, team up with,
      team with, teetotum, theater, theater-in-the-round, theatron,
      thrash, throw in with, thump, tie in with, tie up with, top, toy,
      toy soldier, trinket, trounce, truncheon, union, unionize,
      unite with, wallop, war club, watering place, wed, whale,
      whim-wham, whip, whop