clubfist

English

Etymology

club +‎ fist

Noun

clubfist (plural clubfists)

1. A large, heavy fist.
2. (obsolete) A coarse, brutal fellow.
   • 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^[1], London: Lackington, Allen, and Co., published 1815, page 79:

     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.