Dictionary entry

Club (3)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Club (?), v. i. 1. To form a club; to combine for the promotion of some common object; to unite.

Till grosser atoms, tumbling in the stream

Of fancy, madly met, and clubbed into a dream.

Dryden.

2. To pay on equal or proportionate share of a common charge or expense; to pay for something by contribution.

The owl, the raven, and the bat,

Clubbed for a feather to his hat.

Swift.

3. (Naut.) To drift in a current with an anchor out.