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clubfist en · NOUN

Etymology

From club + fist.

Meanings

1. A large, heavy fist.
2. (obsolete) A coarse, brutal fellow.
   • The rascall rude, the roag, the clubfist griepte / My sclender arme, and pluckt mee on in hast: / And with my robes the bloudy ground hee sweepte: / As I drue backe hee hal'd mee on full fast. 1574, John Higgins, “How the Lady Sabrine, daughter of King Locrinus and Elstride, was drowned by Queen Guendoline. Ant. C. 1064.”, in Joseph Haslewood, editor, Mirror for Magistrates, London: Lackington, Allen, and Co., published 1815, page 79:

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