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

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

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

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 quarterstaff prize was awarded to Long Hackett, one of John Forster's retainers.

From Both Sides the Border A Tale of Hotspur and Glendower by Peacock, Ralph