Quarterstaff

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A long wooden staff formerly used as a weapon.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A wooden staff of an approximate length between 2 and 2.5 meters, sometimes tipped with iron, used as a weapon in rural England during the Early Modern period.
  • n. Fighting or exercise with the quarterstaff.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. 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.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. An old English weapon formed of a stout pole about 6½ feet long.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a long stout staff used as a weapon
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    staff   
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    quarterstaves   
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