(n.) A heavy staff of wood, usually tapering, and wielded the hand; a weapon; a cudgel.
(n.) Any card of the suit of cards having a figure like the trefoil or clover leaf. (pl.) The suit of cards having such figure.
(n.) 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.
(n.) A joint charge of expense, or any person's share of it; a contribution to a common fund.
(v. t.) To beat with a club.
(v. t.) To throw, or allow to fall, into confusion.
(v. t.) To unite, or contribute, for the accomplishment of a common end; as, to club exertions.
(v. t.) To raise, or defray, by a proportional assesment; as, to club the expense.
(v. i.) To form a club; to combine for the promotion of some common object; to unite.
(v. i.) To pay on equal or proportionate share of a common charge or expense; to pay for something by contribution.
(v. i.) To drift in a current with an anchor out.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mike Ashley told Lee Charnley that maybe he could talk with me last week but I said: ‘Listen, we cannot say too much so I think it’s better if we wait.’ The message Mike Ashley is sending is quite positive, but it was better to talk after we play Tottenham.” Benítez will ask Ashley for written assurances over his transfer budget, control of transfers and other spheres of club autonomy, but can also reassure the owner that the prospect of managing in the second tier holds few fears for him.
(2) Schneiderlin, valued at an improbable £27m, and the currently injured Jay Rodriguez are wanted by their former manager Mauricio Pochettino at Spurs, but the chairman Ralph Krueger has apparently called a halt to any more outgoings, saying: “They are part of the core that we have decided to keep at Southampton.” He added: “Jay Rodriguez and Morgan Schneiderlin are not for sale and they will be a part of our club as we enter the new season.” The new manager Ronald Koeman has begun rebuilding by bringing in Dusan Tadic and Graziano Pellè from the Dutch league and Krueger said: “We will have players coming in, we will make transfers to strengthen the squad.
(3) Robben said: "We've got that match, the Fifa Club World Cup, all those games to look forward to.
(4) In order for the club to grow and sustain its ability to be a competitive force in the Premier League, the board has made a number of decisions which will strengthen the club, support the executive team, manager and his staff and enhance shareholder return.
(5) Tottenham Hotspur’s £400m redevelopment of White Hart Lane could include a retractable grass pitch as the club explores the possibility of hosting a new NFL franchise.
(6) Join a Twitter book club It all started last summer, when 12,000 people took to Twitter to discuss Neil Gaiman's American Gods .
(7) Profit for the second quarter was £27.8m before tax but the club’s astronomical debt under the Glazers’ ownership stands at £322.1m, a 6.2% decrease on the 2014 level of £343.4m.
(8) If they end up going to another club that is difficult to take.
(9) The former Stoke City manager Pulis had reportedly been left frustrated by the club failing to push through deals for various players he targeted to strengthen the Palace squad.
(10) The club then brought in Darren Randolph, Dean Brill, Scott Flinders, Roman Larrieu, and Simon Royce on loan at various times."
(11) David Cameron was accused of revealing his ill-suppressed Bullingdon Club instincts when he shouted at the Labour frontbencher Angela Eagle to "calm down, dear" as she berated him for misleading MPs at prime minister's questions.
(12) Henderson was given permission to join Fulham when Brendan Rodgers arrived at Anfield in 2012 but has since developed into an important asset for the Liverpool manager, to the extent that the 24-year-old is the leading candidate to succeed Steven Gerrard as club captain when the 34-year-old leaves for LA Galaxy.
(13) He continued: "I don't think there could be a better move for me: to retire from one of the world's best football clubs at the end of the season and then join one of the world's best broadcasters.
(14) In the discussion, some of the theories of the pathogenesis of clubbing are reviewed, together with previous reports of clubbing in gastro-oesophageal disorders.
(15) The former Arsenal and France star has signed a three-year contract to replace the sacked Jason Kreis at the helm of the second-year expansion club and will take over on 1 January, the team said.
(16) The Ajax coach Frank de Boer has confirmed that Tottenham Hotspur have approached the Amsterdam club to test his interest in coaching the club.
(17) But I know the full story and it’s a bit different from what people see.” The full story is heavy on the extremes of emotion and as the man who took a stricken but much-loved club away from its community, Winkelman knows that his part is that of villain; the war of words will rumble on.
(18) Everyone gets a bit excited with the whole ‘youth’ thing but, at our clubs, the managers wouldn’t just play any old youngster.
(19) "That attracted all the wrong sorts for a few years, so the clubs put their prices up to keep them out and the prices never came down again."
(20) Asked whether the club would be in new hands by tonight, he said: "There is a board meeting this evening to determine whether or not that is the case."
Truncheon
Definition:
(n.) A short staff, a club; a cudgel; a shaft of a spear.
(n.) A baton, or military staff of command.
(n.) A stout stem, as of a tree, with the branches lopped off, to produce rapid growth.
(v. t.) To beat with a truncheon.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the police's own footage of what followed, shown in court, mounted officers with batons drawn can be seen charging into miners, and officers on foot beat miners about the head with truncheons.
(2) Camouflaged riot police bearing rubber truncheons hold back protesters begging the tsar for bread.
(3) People forget that you were very young and yet public enemy No 1, at the centre of incidents such as going on Bill Grundy's show and the police arriving with truncheons.
(4) I don't want to get hit in the face with a truncheon.
(5) Some 20 officers were seen brutally beating one protester with truncheons.
(6) The BBC showed miners throwing stones and other missiles at the police, followed by mounted officers charging into them, and then officers chasing miners, some clearly being hit over the head with truncheons.
(7) Arthur Critchlow, who suffered a fractured skull from a police truncheon and was arrested, held on remand and prosecuted for rioting – for which he was acquitted with 94 others – told the home secretary that his community has never trusted the police since.
(8) Excerpts On police uniforms "Having gone truncheons to tasers in a generation, I have to wonder what purpose the current police service has been built for ... we are mostly approachable and pleasant people, it's just that we dress like Imperial Stormtroopers.
(9) Miners, fighting to protect jobs in pits that were subsequently closed down after the strike was defeated, were truncheoned over the head, then several spent time in prison on remand, fearing very long sentences, while awaiting trial.
(10) The worst scenes of violence in the miners' dispute broke out at the Orgreave coking plant near Rotherham, Yorkshire, yesterday with cars being burned, stones, bricks and bottles being hurled, and policemen lashing out with truncheons.
(11) Truncheon-wielding police attacked the crowds after a small number of people – provocateurs, according to the opposition – broke windows and doors in a government building.
(12) On the other side of the ticket barrier a younger man is whacked with truncheons by two policemen.
(13) Soon afterwards the police gave up, handing their helmets, truncheons and shields to the crowd.
(14) There’s a reputational risk as well as financial risk Jerry Petherick, G4S Prison officers in Oakwood are not armed with truncheons, as they often are in state-run jails, but wear body cameras attached to a strip on their right shoulder – an innovation that has proved very successful, both at de-escalation of violent incidents (“As soon as they see the camera recording they swear a few times, and they calm down,” a guard says) and when recording the effects of overdosing on black mamba.
(15) In the latest of several protests by opposition activists who say their leader will be denied a fair chance at next year’s election, police fired teargas and beat demonstrators with truncheons on Monday to stop them storming the offices of the electoral commission in Nairobi.
(16) Over Friday night police in Kiev broke up the remnants of the anti-government demonstration , swinging truncheons and injuring many, news agencies and witnesses said.
(17) Masked men with truncheons and shields were seen at the entrance to the building as a crowd of about 400 people surrounded it, while police stood nearby but did not intervene.
(18) A police procedural that is much more than the sum of its parts – The Thick of It with truncheons, basically.
(19) "We do not want to be kept quiet by a policeman's truncheon," heavyweight boxer and opposition leader Vitali Klitschko told the crowd.
(20) He said: "And the Syrians seem to be taking a different approach as well, one that makes widespread use of firearms, while the Iranians have generally armed their internal security forces with less lethal means, such as teargas, truncheons, chains, and the like, to reduce the lethality of their response, and to scare off the more faint-hearted among the opposition.