quarterstaff

Example Sentences

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

From Time Magazine Archive

With a spear your people would know quite as much as I should; but I fancy that, with a quarterstaff, I should astonish them.

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

Thou art a deft hand at quarterstaff and singlestick, though, and I doubt not that thy hands can guard thy head.

From The Cornet of Horse A Tale of Marlborough's Wars by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)

One of his men, complete with quarterstaff would accompany each of the others.

From Black Man's Burden by Reynolds, Mack

"One might have a worse weapon than this;" and he swung it round his head, in quarterstaff fashion; "still, I prefer a mace."

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