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If I am seen without the club, then may any man take my life who can, for the club is my Watcher, not I Watcher of the club Never wast thou nearer to the losing of both club and life," said Dingaan, angrily It may be so, O King," answered the Wolf.

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  1. noun A stout heavy stick, usually thicker at one end, suitable for use as a weapon; a cudgel.
  2. noun Sports An implement used in some games to drive a ball, especially a stick with a protruding head used in golf.
  3. noun Games A black figure shaped like a trefoil or clover leaf on certain playing cards.
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  • "I think that passion around the club will be a great advantage for us," he told the Wigan Evening Post. —  Football.co.uk news feed
  • This club is the only tangible evidence of any sport played anywhere other than Earth.
  • Now the club is applying to allow drinking in the smoking area by the main doors. —  News round-up
  • They help control the arc the club is traveling, the position of the clubface at impact and the speed at which the club is accelerating through the hitting area. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
  • Among the new programs at the club is a cooking class that will start on Jan. 6 and an art class that kicks off Jan. 9. —  News from www.nptelegraph.com
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  1. Middle English, from Old Norse klubba.

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  1. from Middle English club, clubb, clubbe, also clob, etc., from Icelandic klubba = Swedish klubba = Danish klub, prob. an assimilated form (bb from mb, mp) of Icelandic klumba, a club, = Swedish Danish klump, clump, lump; cf. Swedish klubb, a clump, block; Danish klumpfodet, clubfooted: see clump and clown. As the name of a suit of cards, clubs is a translation of Spanish bastos, the suit of clubs, plural of basto, a club, a cudgel (see basto, boston). The figure on these cards is now a trefoil or clover-leaf; cf. Danish klöver = Dutch klaver, a club at cards, literally ‘clover’: see clover.
  2. from club, n. See clubbed.
  3. Appears first in the middle of the 17th century, written club or clubbe, and applied to convivial societies originating and meeting in coffee-houses and taverns; prob. a particular application of club in the sense of a ‘clump’ or ‘knot,’ i.e., of men (sec club, 3); cf. Swedish klubb, a clump, etc. (see club), dial. a crowd; German klump, a lump, mass, crowd: see clump.
  4. from club, n.
  5. Cf. club.
 

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