club-headed

English

Adjective

club-headed (comparative more club-headed, superlative most club-headed)

Having a thick head like a club (the weapon).
- 1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, chapter 59, in The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC:
  A crazy old staircase I found it to be, feebly lighted on each landing by a club-headed little oil wick, dying away in a little dungeon of dirty glass.

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