What does quarter-staff mean?

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quarter-staff

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.56 in modern English

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noun

"[F]ew country people there are who do not love to see two sturdy fellows thwack and belabour each other with quarter-staff, single-stick, or fists."

quarter-staffs (plural) quarter-staves (plural)

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