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

A further similarity built up in Alcorn's subconscious, but died unconsidered because at that moment the quarterstaff bout on the screen ended and a brazen-voiced announcer gave the time.

From Assignment's End by Aycock, Roger D.

A quarterstaff bout—a frantic, bloody sport revived from God only knew how many centuries before—was in progress there, matching a heavily muscled Nordic with a sandy bristle of hair against a swarthy, hairless Eurasian.

From Assignment's End by Aycock, Roger D.

We haven't got time for lessons in the use of the quarterstaff.

From Border, Breed Nor Birth by Reynolds, Mack

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)