Crossword clues for clubbed
clubbed
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Clubbed \Clubbed\,
Shaped like a club; grasped like, or used as, a clu
--Skelton.
Club \Club\ (kl[u^]b), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Clubbed (kl[u^]bd); p. pr. & vb. n. Clubbing.]
To beat with a club.
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(Mil.) To throw, or allow to fall, into confusion.
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 unite, or contribute, for the accomplishment of a common end; as, to club exertions.
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To raise, or defray, by a proportional assesment; as, to club the expense.
To club a musket (Mil.), to turn the breach uppermost, so as to use it as a club.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "shaped like a club," from club (n.). Specifically of defects of the foot by c.1500; meaning "formed into a club" is from 1620s.
Wiktionary
Shaped like a club; grasped like, or used as, a clu
vb. (en-past of: club)
WordNet
See club
n. 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, nine]
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: society, guild, gild, lodge, order]
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"
a building occupied by a club; "the clubhouse needed a new roof" [syn: clubhouse]
golf equipment used by a golfer to hit a golf ball [syn: golf club, golf-club]
a playing card in the minor suit of clubs (having one or more black trefoils on it); "he led a small club"; "clubs were trumps"
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, nightspot]
Wikipedia
Clubbed is a 2008 British drama film about a 1980s factory worker who takes up a job as a club doorman, written by Geoff Thompson and directed by Neil Thompson.
Usage examples of "clubbed".
But what good were his clubbed hands and shuffling step in the amaranth fields?
Thus it was that a small, begrimed and oddly shaped seaman with a clubbed foot strolled with another who was tall and handsome to a fault, but who limped and leaned on a crooked staff.
Through a freak of timing, it missed Bink and clubbed into the trunk of the needle cactus.
Her admirers had clubbed together to make up to her for what her husband had stolen.
Hallet carried a blue army automatic and Leaking the slightly smaller gun with which he had clubbed the cop in the taxicab.
Figures darted out of the lodges, only to be clubbed or slashedd own or run through with ready lances.
Kane clubbed his musket and smashed down into the red-eyed faces, knocking aside the upleaping hands.
He told of a January morning when he was nineteen and very gay and the local lads had clubbed to hire the wagonette for the Garlow races.
He clubbed a beater with the weighted butt of a short spear, knocked him out briefly.
Two Cassiline Brothers flanked her, upright and motionless, hands on daggers, nearly identical in their ash-grey mandilion coats and clubbed hair.
At least he was easy enough to keep in sight, the dim grey robe of his mandilion coat swinging with the speed of his pace, the hilt of his broadsword rising over his shoulder and the blond hair clubbed at his neck.
His features were straight and sharply chiselled, and what she had thought a silver perruque was in fact his own thick, un powdered hair, worn long and clubbed at the back of his neck.
She screamed out her rage and clawed furiously at the burrs with her mind fingers, clubbed at those shapeless malevolences.
For instance, let us suppose that Homer and Virgil, Aristotle and Cicero, Thucydides and Livy, could have met all together, and have clubbed 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.
Jane side-stepped smartly and as the rushing woman passed, clubbed her behind the neck with both hands clasped together.