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Quarterstaff   Listen
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Quarterstaff  n.  (pl. quarterstaves)  A long and stout staff formerly used as a weapon of defense and offense; so called because in holding it one hand was placed in the middle, and the other between the middle and the end.






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"Quarterstaff" Quotes from Famous Books



... and muscles developed with labour, and he was now able to swing all save the very heaviest hammers in the shop. He had never abated in his practice at arms, and every day when work was over, he and his master had a long bout together with cudgel or quarterstaff, sword or axe; Walter of course used light weapons, but so quick was he with them that Geoffrey Ward acknowledged that he needed to put out all his skill to hold his own with his pupil. But it was not alone with Geoffrey that Walter had an opportunity ...
— Saint George for England • G. A. Henty

... a triumph that for many a day was very sweet under the tongue of his memory. As was said before, he had been three times to the market-town at fair-time, and upon the last of these occasions he had fought a bout of quarterstaff with a young fellow of twenty, and had been the conqueror. He was then only a ...
— Men of Iron • Ernie Howard Pyle



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