clubbed, ppl. a.
(klʌbd)
[f. club + -ed.]
I. From the n.
1. Shaped like a club, thickened at or toward the end, knobbed; clavate, claviform.
| c 1386 Chaucer Monk's Prol. 10 She bryngeth me forth the grete clobbed [v.r. clubbed, clobbet] staues. c 1440 Promp. Parv. 84 Clubbyd staffe, fustis. 1526 Skelton Magnyf. 1512 Hercules..with hys stubborne clubbyd mase. 1783 Phil. Trans. LXXIII. 219 Their antennæ are clubbed. 1850 ‘Bat’ Cricketer's Manual 24 Two sets of players are arranged with bent or clubbed sticks. |
b. as a defect or distortion of the foot or fingers; also (obs.) of a person: Club-footed, etc.
| a 1509 in Gardner Lett. Rich. III & Hen. VII, A clobbed fote. a 1605 Montgomerie Misc. P. xiii. 30 Love maks a couard kene; Love maks the clubbit clene. 1806–7 J. Beresford Miseries Hum. Life xvi. (1826) 90 Your fingers so clubbed at the ends. 1881 Syd. Soc. Lex., Clubbed fingers, a term applied to the thin fingers with thickened ends, which are often seen in phthisical persons. |
2. Lumpy, massively built, thick-set.
| 1695 Lond. Gaz. No. 3143/4 Stolen..one black clubbed Gelding. 1702 Ibid. No. 3850/4 Stolen or strayed..a clubbed bob-tail'd black Mare..a little low Back'd. |
† 3. Clumsy, rude. Cf. club n. 1 e. clubbish.
| c 1440 Promp. Parv. 84 Clubbyd, or boystows, rudis. 1548 Forrest Pleas. Poesye 88 That wone clubbed Cobbe should not so encroche an hundred mennys lyuynges. |
II. From the verb.
4. Formed into a club or knot; clenched.
| 1625 Purchas Pilgrims ii. iii. §6 The Pongoes..so beate them with their clubbed fists. 1885 Leisure Hour Jan. 34/1 The cultivation of ‘clubbed pigtails’. |
5. Turned into or used as a club.
| 1724 De Foe Mem. Cavalier (1840) 179 Coming close up to the teeth of one another with the clubbed musket. 1888 Henty Cornet of Horse x. 102 Bayonets and clubbed muskets were the weapons on both sides. |
6. Combined in a mass; thrown into a confused and disorganized mass, as a clubbed battalion.
| 1823 Lamb Elia i. ix. (1860) 70 The waves of the blown Baltic with their clubbed sounds. 1876 World V. No. 105. 11 Does not marshal his incidents very adroitly, they assume sometimes something of a ‘clubbed’ formation. |