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)

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

Then the head shivered on a steel corselet, and Sim played quarterstaff with the shaft.

From The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies by Buchan, John

The renowned Hercules always carried a quarterstaff, and was from thence called Claviger.

From The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899 by Aitken, George A.