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
Warbel says they will bait a bull, and perhaps a bear; and that there will be fighting with the quarterstaff and shooting with cross and long bow, and many other like spectacles.
From The Secret Chamber at Chad by Everett-Green, Evelyn
And the poor fellow hung about sadly, thinking he should find none in the end, and swearing he would follow me even had he naught but a quarterstaff in his hand.
From A Thane of Wessex by Whistler, Charles W. (Charles Watts)
The knowledge of singlestick and quarterstaff still lingered, in the country parts of England.
From Under Drake's Flag A Tale of the Spanish Main by Browne, Gordon
And next, I saw my quarterstaff still resting against the tree where I had left it.
From A Thane of Wessex by Whistler, Charles W. (Charles Watts)
