club-walking

English

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.
   • 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 12:

     `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.'