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
One of his men, complete with quarterstaff would accompany each of the others.
From Black Man's Burden by Reynolds, Mack
He was dressed in leather like our shepherds, and like them carried but quarterstaff and seax for weapons.
From A Prince of Cornwall A Story of Glastonbury and the West in the Days of Ina of Wessex by Whistler, Charles W. (Charles Watts)
I can wield a quarterstaff as well as a prize-fighter, and have beaten Figg himself at the broadsword.
From Jack Sheppard A Romance by Ainsworth, William Harrison
The only other handweapon capable of countering it is another quarterstaff.
From Black Man's Burden by Reynolds, Mack
