Clubbe

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. A thick wooden cudgel used as a weapon ; to hit someone repeatedly with such a heavy stick
2. A heavy wooden staff for striking blows ; to beat a person or thing with a stout stick
3. An archaic term for a stout cudgel used as a bludgeon ; to strike someone with a weighty stick

Etymology: "Clubbe" is an older spelling of "club," the heavy wooden stick used as a cudgel or bludgeon. The double consonant reflects Middle English spelling, which was still settling into the forms modern readers know. The noun was borrowed from Old Norse "klubba," meaning a cudgel or mallet, and the same root appears in related Germanic languages. The stick sense is the original one, and the spelling later simplified to the single-b form we use today.