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club-walking

club-walking noun: an annual procession, usually held on Whitmonday, of members of a sick club, common in British villages in the nineteenth century.

Noun

club-walking (uncountable)

  1. (historical) An annual procession, usually held on Whitmonday, of members of a sick club, common in British villages in the nineteenth century.
    • `What's that?' said Durbeyfield. `Not on account o' I?' `'Tis the women's club-walking, Sir John. Why, your daughter is one o' the members.'1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 12

Questions about club-walking

What does club-walking mean?
Club-walking means an annual procession, usually held on Whitmonday, of members of a sick club, common in British villages in the nineteenth century.
What part of speech is club-walking?
Club-walking is a noun.

Words near club-walking in the dictionary

  1. club-moss
  2. club-mosses
  3. club-root
  4. club-rush
  5. club-rushes
  6. club-walking
  7. clubability
  8. clubable
  9. Clubb
  10. clubbability
  11. clubbable

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