But make you ready your stiff bats and clubs;
Rome and her rats are at the point of battle.
Shak.

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.

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.

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.

To club a musket (Mil.), to turn the breach uppermost, so as to use it as a club.

Till grosser atoms, tumbling in the stream
Of fancy, madly met, and clubbed into a dream.
Dryden.

The owl, the raven, and the bat,
Clubbed for a feather to his hat.
Swift.