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

So I examined billhook and quarterstaff, and at last said I knew them.

From A Thane of Wessex by Whistler, Charles W. (Charles Watts)

"That man-at-arms must be a stalwart fellow, indeed," said one, "to kill three Welshmen with nought but a quarterstaff."

From Both Sides the Border A Tale of Hotspur and Glendower by Peacock, Ralph

The knowledge of singlestick and quarterstaff still lingered, in the country parts of England.

From Under Drake's Flag A Tale of the Spanish Main by Browne, Gordon