club-mann.
/ˈklʌbmən/, U.S. /ˈkləbmən/ 1. A man armed with a club, for fighting or enforcement of order.
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society > armed hostility > warrior > armed man > [noun] > club or stick
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billeter1643
clubster1727
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bludgeon-man1797
bludgeonist1811
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society > law > law enforcement > law-enforcement or peace-officer > [noun] > armed with club
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1597 Pilgrimage Parnassus i. 138 One Carterus a lustie club~man..that defended him.
1676 London Gaz. No. 1152/2 Stockholme Octob. 30..the King..found it [his Army] to consist in 22000 Men, besides 8000 Boors or Club men.
1868 H. H. Milman Ann. St. Paul's Cathedral vii. 167 Two nobles were given by the Archdeacon of London to the club-men (city-police), to keep off the pressure of the mob.
1872 S. Mateer Travancore 254 Six years ago I employed clubmen to guard my paddy.
2. English History. Bodies of untrained and half-armed countrymen, with bludgeons, and the like, during the Civil War of the 17th cent.These appeared first in Yorkshire (c1642–3) on the side of the Parliament: somewhat later (c1645) in the south and west, ostensibly as neutrals, seeking only to protect their property from plunder. See Clarendon, bk. ix.
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society > armed hostility > warrior > armed man > [noun] > club or stick > body of
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1643 Mercurius Aulicus 2–9 Apr. 174 He found they [Fairfax's troops, from Seacroft Moor 30th Mar.] were gone backe with nine Colours, and two Troopes of Horse, besides their Club-men (whereof wee have such notable Romances in the London Newes-books).
1645 in J. Rushworth Hist. Coll.: Fourth Pt. (1701) I. 52 Two captains of the Club-men (as they were called) being a great number of the inhabitants of several parts of Wiltshire, and some counties adjacent, who gathered themselves together, alledging they did but stand on their own defence, to prevent Plundering; and that they would in that posture remain Neuters until the King and his Parliament should agree.
1645 Prince Charles in Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion (1703) II. ix. 514 Seasonably to discountenance, and punish those Assemblies of Club-men; which would otherwise, in time, prove as dangerous to him, as any other strength of the Rebels.
1647 T. May Hist. Parl. iii. iv. 63 1000 Musqueteers, with 2000 Club-men, under the command of Sir William Fairfax [in 1643].
3. A member of a club.
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society > society and the community > social relations > an association, society, or organization > types of association, society, or organization > [noun] > club > member
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1853 W. M. Thackeray Eng. Humourists ii. 99 Addison was one of the most resolute club-men of his day.
1859 J. Lang Wanderings in India 21 I find a party of five at the hotel; all club men, and intimate friends of mine.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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