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Club vs. Bludgeon — What's the Difference?

Club vs. Bludgeon — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Club and Bludgeon

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Club

An association dedicated to a particular interest or activity
I belong to a photographic club
The club secretary

Bludgeon

A thick stick with a heavy end, used as a weapon
Maces and spiked bludgeons

Club

An organization constituted to play matches in a particular sport
A football club

Bludgeon

Beat (someone) repeatedly with a bludgeon or other heavy object
She was found bludgeoned to death in the basement

Club

A nightclub playing fashionable dance music
The club scene
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Bludgeon

A short heavy club, usually of wood, that is thicker or loaded at one end.

Club

A heavy stick with a thick end, used as a weapon
They beat him with a wooden club

Bludgeon

To hit with a heavy club or similar blunt instrument.

Club

One of the four suits in a conventional pack of playing cards, denoted by a black trefoil.

Bludgeon

To strike with strong force
"The fields were often baked by the sun and bludgeoned by savage thunderstorms" (Linda Hasselstrom).

Club

Combine with others so as to collect a sum of money for a particular purpose
Friends and colleagues clubbed together to buy him a present

Bludgeon

To overcome, often by intimidation or coercion.

Club

Go out to nightclubs
She enjoys going clubbing in Oxford

Bludgeon

A short, heavy club, often of wood, which is thicker or loaded at one end.
We smashed the radio with a steel bludgeon.

Club

Beat (a person or animal) with a club or similar implement
The islanders clubbed whales to death

Bludgeon

(transitive) To strike or hit with something hard, usually on the head; to club.
The apprehended rioter was bludgeoned to death.

Club

A stout heavy stick, usually thicker at one end, suitable for use as a weapon; a cudgel.

Bludgeon

(transitive) To coerce someone, as if with a bludgeon.
Their favorite method was bludgeoning us with the same old arguments in favor of their opinions.

Club

An implement used in some games to drive a ball, especially a stick with a protruding head used in golf.

Bludgeon

A short stick, with one end loaded, or thicker and heavier that the other, used as an offensive weapon.

Club

Something resembling a club.

Bludgeon

A club used as a weapon

Club

A black figure shaped like a trefoil or clover leaf on certain playing cards.

Bludgeon

Overcome or coerce as if by using a heavy club;
The teacher bludgeoned the students into learning the math formulas

Club

A playing card with this figure.

Bludgeon

Strike with a club or a bludgeon

Club

Clubs (used with a sing. or pl. verb) The suit of cards represented by this figure.

Club

A group of people organized for a common purpose, especially a group that meets regularly
A garden club.

Club

The building, room, or other facility used for the meetings of an organized group.

Club

(Sports) An athletic team or organization.

Club

A nightclub.

Club

To strike or beat with a club or similar implement.

Club

To use (a firearm) as a club by holding the barrel and hitting with the butt end.

Club

To gather or combine (hair, for example) into a clublike mass.

Club

To contribute (money or resources) to a joint or common purpose.

Club

To join or combine for a common purpose; form a club.

Club

To go to or frequent nightclubs
Was out all night clubbing.

Club

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

Club

(archaic) The fees associated with belonging to such a club.

Club

A heavy object, often a kind of stick, intended for use as a bludgeoning weapon or a plaything.

Club

An implement to hit the ball in certain ball games, such as golf.

Club

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

Club

An establishment that provides staged entertainment, often with food and drink, such as a nightclub.
She was sitting in a jazz club, sipping wine and listening to a bass player's solo.

Club

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

Club

A playing card marked with such a symbol.
I've got only one club in my hand.

Club

(humorous) Any set of people with a shared characteristic.
You also hate Night Court?
Join the club.
Michael stood you up?
Welcome to the club.

Club

A club sandwich.

Club

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

Club

(transitive) To hit with a club.
He clubbed the poor dog.

Club

(intransitive) To join together to form a group.

Club

To combine into a club-shaped mass.
A medical condition with clubbing of the fingers and toes

Club

(intransitive) To go to nightclubs.
We went clubbing in Ibiza.
When I was younger, I used to go clubbing almost every night.

Club

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

Club

(transitive) To raise, or defray, by a proportional assessment.
To club the expense

Club

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

Club

(military) To throw, or allow to fall, into confusion.

Club

(transitive) To unite, or contribute, for the accomplishment of a common end.
To club exertions

Club

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

Club

A heavy staff of wood, usually tapering, and wielded with the hand; a weapon; a cudgel.
But make you ready your stiff bats and clubs;Rome and her rats are at the point of battle.

Club

Any card of the suit of cards having a figure like the trefoil or clover leaf. (pl.) The suit of cards having such figure.

Club

An association of persons for the promotion of some common object, as literature, science, politics, good fellowship, etc.; esp. an association supported by equal assessments or contributions of the members.
They talkedAt wine, in clubs, of art, of politics.
He [Goldsmith] was one of the nine original members of that celebrated fraternity which has sometimes been called the Literary Club, but which has always disclaimed that epithet, and still glories in the simple name of the Club.

Club

A joint charge of expense, or any person's share of it; a contribution to a common fund.
They laid down the club.
We dined at a French house, but paid ten shillings for our part of the club.

Club

To beat with a club.

Club

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.

Club

To unite, or contribute, for the accomplishment of a common end; as, to club exertions.

Club

To raise, or defray, by a proportional assesment; as, to club the expense.

Club

To form a club; to combine for the promotion of some common object; to unite.
Till grosser atoms, tumbling in the streamOf fancy, madly met, and clubbed into a dream.

Club

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.

Club

To drift in a current with an anchor out.

Club

A team of professional baseball players who play and travel together;
Each club played six home games with teams in its own division

Club

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

Club

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

Club

A building occupied by a club;
The clubhouse needed a new roof

Club

Golf equipment used by a golfer to hit a golf ball

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

Club

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

Club

Unite with a common purpose;
The two men clubbed together

Club

Gather and spend time together;
They always club together

Club

Strike with a club or a bludgeon

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