Word Finder - club

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An association of members joining together for some common purpose, especially sports or recreation.

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A heavy stick intended for use as a weapon or plaything.

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A joint charge of expense, or any person's share of it; a contribution to a common fund.

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An establishment that provides staged entertainment, often with food and drink, such as a nightclub.

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She was sitting in a jazz club, sipping wine and listening to a bass player's solo.

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A black clover shape (♣), one of the four symbols used to mark the suits of playing cards.

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Any set of people with a shared characteristic.

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Michael stood you up?  Welcome to the club.

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A club sandwich.

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The slice of bread in the middle of a club sandwich.

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To hit with a club.

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He clubbed the poor dog.

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To join together to form a group.

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To combine into a club-shaped mass.

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a medical condition with clubbing of the fingers and toes

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To go to nightclubs.

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We went clubbing in Ibiza.

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To pay an equal or proportionate share of a common charge or expense.

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To raise, or defray, by a proportional assessment.

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to club the expense

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To drift in a current with an anchor out.

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To throw, or allow to fall, into confusion.

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To unite, or contribute, for the accomplishment of a common end.

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to club exertions

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

In the club all was going on as usual.

I can go to Sam's Club and buy a twenty-pound bag of rice for $10 and a twenty-pound bag of pinto beans for $13.

While Dean remained distressed over the accident, he knew he must concentrate on the Women's Club debate just hours away.

His curiosity satisfied and the hunt over, he was ready to leave the noise of the club for the peace of his condo.

She did attempt to engage an uninterested climber in a conversation about her Great-aunt Annie being one of the founders of the Ouray Woman's Club, back in 1897 and how she helped form the Ouray Library, with her friend, the famous millionaire, of Hope Diamond fame, Tom Walsh.

A modern edition was issued in 1901 from the Grolier Club, New York.

See Statuta Ecclesiae Scoticanae (Bannatyne Club, Edinburgh, 1866).

He Traveled to the same club he visited the night before, hungry.

Famous for his speeches at the Jacobin club, he was elected a member of the municipality of Paris, then of the Legislative Assembly, and later of the National Convention.

Other sensory cells with long cilia cover a sort of cushion (n.c.) at the base of the club; the club may be long and the cushion small, or the...

Pierre, from club habit, always left both hat and stick in the anteroom.

I have that Women's Club debate, and with Fred starting jury duty, this place will be short-handed.

Surely not to the club or to pay calls?

It was taking place at the English Club and someone near and dear to him sat at the end of the table.

Talon's renting out a country club between here and Pembroke Pines, Toni responded.

It'll be a good distraction while we rig the country club and other hotels.

The idea was like a blow from a club.

He became marechal de camp in 1788; but his ambition was not satisfied, and at the outbreak of the Revolution, seeing the opportunity for carving out a career, he went to Paris, where he joined the Jacobin Club.

The Zumsteinspitze was first climbed in 1820, the Signalkuppe (on top of which there is now a club hut) in 1842, the Nordend in 1861 and the Parrotspitze in 5863.

Papuan weapons are the bow and arrow (in the Fly River region, the north and north-east coasts); a beheading knife of a sharp segment of bamboo; a shafted stone club - rayed, disk shaped or ball-headed (in use all over the island); spears of various forms, pointed and barbed; the spear-thrower (on the Finsch coast); and hardwood clubs and shields, widely differing in pattern and ornamentation with the district of their manufacture.

He soon found his way into the fast political society of London, and at the club at Goosetrees renewed an acquaintance begun at Cambridge with Pitt, which ripened into a friendship of the closest kind.

The oldest yacht club in the United Kingdom, the Royal Cork (founded in 1720 as the Cork Harbour Water Club), has its headquarters here, with a club-house, and holds an annual regatta.

He is represented with four arms, and black in colour; in one hand he holds a club and in the others a shell, a discus and a lotus respectively.

He was already known as one of the influential members of the Cordeliers club and of that of the Jacobins.

The Winyah Indigo Society grew out of a social club organized about 1740, and was founded in 1757 by a group of planters interested in raising indigo; it long conducted a school (discontinued during the Civil War) which eventually became part of the city's public school system.

In January 2006, VH1 continued with the success of the established show Celebrity Fit Club in its third season.

August 2006 brought the second season of Flavor of Love and the fourth season of Celebrity Fit Club.

There is a dance floor open every night of the week, as well as impressive sound and club lighting.

I knew I'd have to talk to you about it sooner or later, but I didn't want to hold the financial burden of an unplanned pregnancy over your head like a club.

After I hung up the phone, I plodded to the kitchen where I found a half bottle of Canadian Club.

Dusty's eyes returned to the image of the country club.

Josh didn't know about the horse ranch, and she wasn't about to tell him - not as long as he was holding the goats over her head like a club.

Xander returned to the club.

It was better than hunting in a club.

Roland became a member of the Jacobin Club.

This attitude they maintained after the Constituent Assembly had been succeeded by the Legislative, but not many of the new deputies became members of the club.

This was the death-blow of the club.

The name of Feuillants, as a party designation, survived the club.

A numerous British colony resides at Mustapha, where there is an English club.

The beetles have feelers with eleven segments, whereof the terminal few are thickened so as to form a club.

Other important buildings are the Sobranye, or parliament house, the palace of the synod, the ministries of war and commerce, the university with the national printing press, the national library, the officers' club and several large military structures.

Pilgrim Hall, a large stone building erected by the Pilgrim Society (formed in Plymouth in 1820 as the successor of the Old Colony Club, founded in 1769) in 1824 and remodelled in 1880, is rich in relics of the Pilgrims and of early colonial times, and contains a portrait of Edward Winslow (the only extant portrait of a "Mayflower" passenger), and others of later worthies, and paintings, illustrating the history of the Pilgrims; the hall library contains many old and valuable books and manuscripts - including Governor Bradford's Bible, a copy of Eliot's Indian Bible, and the patent of 1621 from the Council for New England - and Captain Myles Standish's sword.

The club disowned Danton and Desmoulins and attacked Robespierre for his "moderation," but the new insurrection which it attempted failed, and its leaders were guillotined on the 24th of March 1794, from which date nothing is known of the club.

His first efforts in verse-making were inspired by the meetings of the Easy Club (founded in 1712), of which he was an original member; and in 1715 he became the Club Laureate.

The port is the headquarters of the Royal Harwich Yacht Club.

Bibliography.-Sir Thomas Urquhart's Discovery of a most excellent jewel (1652; reprinted in the Maitland Club's edition of Urquhart's Works in 1834) is written with the express purpose of glorifying Scotland.

The foundation of the Aberdeen Philosophical Society (the "Wise Club"), which numbered among its members Campbell, Beattie, Gerard and Dr John Gregory, was mainly owing to the exertions of Reid, who was secretary for the first year (1758).

A sailors' and fishermen's Harbour of Refuge, free library, constitutional club and technical school are maintained.

Like the other two orders, the Teutonic Order began as a charitable society, developed into a military club, and ended as something of a chartered company, exercising rights of sovereignty on the troubled confines of Christendom.

With regard to this point the work of the Smithfield Club deserves recognition.