1. One who clubs or combines for any object; one who belongs to a club; a member of a club.
1633. Massinger, New Way, I. i. Whores and canters, Clubbers by night.
a. 1700. Sc. Pasquils (1868), 192. Rejoice old clubbers, Rosse and Skelmorlie, Dalrymple’s faction now hath lost an eye.
1719. D’Urfey, Pills, III. 304. The Punch Clubbers strait will be sitting.
1834. Gentl. Mag., CIV. I. 107/2. Indeed, to use the phrase of Dr. Johnson, ‘He [R. Heber] was an excellent clubber.’
2. One who wields a club, a clubman.
1887. Voice (N. Y.), 18 Aug., 5/5. Police Capt. Alex S. Williams, whose reputation as a clubber and as an efficient riot-queller is much more than local.
