1727. Philip Quarll, 34. With their Clubsters in the Front.
2. A frequenter of clubs; = CLUBMAN 3.
a. 1734. North, Lives, I. 155. He was no clubster, listed among good fellows. Ibid., Exam. (1740), 572. The House was double balconied in the Front … for the Clubsters to issue forth in fresco with hats and Peruques.
3. A local name of the stoat. Cf. club-start, -tail.
1788. Marshall, E. Yorksh. Gloss, Clubster, a stoat.
1876. Robinson, Whitby Gloss., Clubster, a weazel of the larger kind with a thicker head.
