4. 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.

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.

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