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My trusty OEM CDROM includes Clubb as an older spelling of Club. Besides "stick", *clubb* also once had the meaning od "a heavy, clumsy, clownish person"(1542 Udall Erasm. Apoph. 167a, "The fair flatte truthe that the vplandishe or homely and playn clubbes of the countree dooen vse".)
The ultimate root of *club* is the Latin *globus* (globe) which is related to the Greek *ge* (earth).