Club vs Mace - What's the difference?
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A heavy stick intended for use as a weapon or plaything(w).
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, title= #An implement to hit the ball in some ballgames, e.g. golf.
An association of members joining together for some common purpose, especially sports or recreation.
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*:At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors.In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club , or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.
#(lb) The fees associated with belonging to such a club.
#*(rfdate) (Benjamin Franklin):
#*:He can have no right to the benefits of Society, who will not pay his Club towards the Support of it.
A joint charge of expense, or any person's share of it; a contribution to a common fund.
*(w, Roger L'Estrange) (1616-1704)
*:They laid down the club .
*(Samuel Pepys) (1633-1703)
*:We dined at a French house, but paid ten shillings for our part of the club .
An establishment that provides staged entertainment, often with food and drink, such as a nightclub.
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A black clover shape (♣), one of the four symbols used to mark the suits of playing cards.
#A playing card marked with such a symbol.
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(lb) Any set of people with a shared characteristic.
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to hit with a club.
To join together to form a group.
* Dryden
(transitive) To combine into a club-shaped mass.
To go to nightclubs.
To pay an equal or proportionate share of a common charge or expense.
* Jonathan Swift
To raise, or defray, by a proportional assessment.
(nautical) To drift in a current with an anchor out.
(military) To throw, or allow to fall, into confusion.
* {{quote-book
, year=1876
, author=Major-General G. E. Voyle and Captain G. De Saint-Clair-Stevenson, F.R.G.S.
, title=A Military Dictionary, Comprising Terms, Scientific and Otherwise, Connected with the Science of War, Third Edition
, publisher=London: William Clowes & Sons
, page=80
, passage=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.
}}
To unite, or contribute, for the accomplishment of a common end.
(military) To turn the breech of (a musket) uppermost, so as to use it as a club.
A heavy fighting club.
* 1786', The '''Mace is an ancient weapon, formerly much used by cavalry of all nations, and likewise by ecclesiastics, who in consequence of their tenures, frequently took the field, but were by a canon of the church forbidden to wield the sword. — Francis Grose, ''A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons , page 51.
A ceremonial form of this weapon.
* 1598', I am a king that find thee; and I know 'Tis not the balm, the sceptre, and the ball, The sword, the '''mace , the crown imperial, The intertissued robe of gold and pearl... — William Shakespeare, ''Henvry V , Act IV, Scene I, line 259.
A long baton used by some drum majors to keep time and lead a marching band. If this baton is referred to as a mace, by convention it has a ceremonial often decorative head, which, if of metal, usually is hollow and sometimes intricately worked.
An officer who carries a mace as an emblem of authority.
A knobbed mallet used by curriers in dressing leather to make it supple.
(archaic) A billiard cue.
To hit someone or something with a .
An old money of account in China equal to one tenth of a tael.
An old weight of 57.98 grains.
A spice obtained from the outer layer of the kernel of the fruit of the nutmeg.
* 1610 , William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale , Act IV, Scene III, line 45.
A common name for some types of tear gas.
By extension, a common name for some types of pepper spray.
By generalization, a name for personal tear gas and pepper spray.
To spray in defense or attack with mace (pepper spray, or, tear gas) using a hand-held device.
(informal) To spray a similar noxious chemical in defense or attack using an available hand-held device such as an aerosol spray can.
* 1989 , Carl Hiaasen, Skin Tight , Ballantine Books, New York, chapter 22:
Mace is a synonym of club.
In archaic terms the difference between club and mace
is that club is the fees associated with belonging to such a club while mace is a billiard cue.As nouns the difference between club and mace
is that club is a heavy stick intended for use as a weapon or playthingWp while mace is a heavy fighting club.As verbs the difference between club and mace
is that club is to hit with a club while mace is to hit someone or something with a mace.As a proper noun Mace is
alternative case form of lang=en tear gas or pepper spray.club
English
Noun
(en noun)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=There were many wooden chairs for the bulk of his visitors, and two wicker armchairs with red cloth cushions for superior people. From the packing-cases had emerged some Indian clubs ,
Synonyms
* (weapon) cudgel * (sports association) teamHyponyms
* *Derived terms
* benefit club * clubbing * clubfoot * clubhouse * club sandwich * golf club * nightclub * on the clubVerb
(clubb)- He clubbed the poor dog.
- Till grosser atoms, tumbling in the stream / Of fancy, madly met, and clubbed into a dream.
- a medical condition with clubbing of the fingers and toes
- We went clubbing in Ibiza.
- The owl, the raven, and the bat / Clubbed for a feather to his hat.
- to club the expense
- to club exertions
Anagrams
* ----mace
English
Etymology 1
(etyl), from (etyl) mace, mache, from ).Noun
(en noun)- (Macaulay)
Verb
See also
* bludgeon * celt * twirling baton * war clubEtymology 2
and (etyl), meaning "a bean".Noun
(en noun)Etymology 3
From (etyl), from re-interpretation of (m) as a plural (compare (m)); ultimately from (etyl) (m) (name of an unidentified spice).Noun
(en noun)- I must have saffron to color the warden pies; mace ; dates, none -- that's out of my note; nutmegs, seven; a race or two of ginger, but that I may beg; four pounds of prunes, and as many of raisins o' th' sun.
Etymology 4
From the name of one brand of the spray, (m).Noun
(en noun)Verb
- When Reynaldo and Willie had burst into Larkey's drug store to confront him, the old man had maced Willie square in the eyes with an aerosol can of spermicidal birth-control foam.