From Middle English clubbe, from Old Norse klubba, klumba, from Proto-Germanic *klumpĂ´ ("clip, clasp; clump, lump; log, block"), from Proto-Indo-European *glemb- ("log, block"), from *gel-. Cognate with English clump, cloud, Latin globus, glomus; and perhaps related to Middle Low German kolve ("bulb"), German Kolben ("butt, bulb, club").
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