quarterstaff

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On NBC, an American Gladiator is a beefcake model in a unitard swinging his padded quarterstaff.

From Time Magazine Archive

Chairs at precisely half-past ten o'clock and I must request you, my lords, ladies and gentlemen, to warn your chairmen that quarterstaff play with the poles will be visited with your acutest displeasure.

From The Passionate Elopement by MacKenzie, Compton

Besides, the bow, now it is unstrung, makes an excellent quarterstaff, a weapon with which I have practiced a great deal.

From By Right of Conquest Or, With Cortez in Mexico by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)

The renowned Hercules always carried a quarterstaff, and was from thence called Claviger.

From The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899 by Aitken, George A.

Warbel says they will bait a bull, and perhaps a bear; and that there will be fighting with the quarterstaff and shooting with cross and long bow, and many other like spectacles.

From The Secret Chamber at Chad by Everett-Green, Evelyn