Quarterstaff is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for QUARTERSTAFF in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a long wooden pole with an iron tip, an old weapon of defence
• a stout pole 6–8 feet long, formerly used as a weapon.
• 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.
• a long stout staff used as a weapon
• a stout pole 6–8 feet long, formerly used as a weapon.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a long stout staff formerly used as a weapon and wielded with one hand in the middle and the other between the middle and the end

Words related to QUARTERSTAFF

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Words that contain QUARTERSTAFF

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How to use QUARTERSTAFF in a sentence

• Now and then they stopped to rest, and each thought that he never had seen in all his life before such a hand at quarterstaff.
• In the good town of Blyth there lived a stout tanner, celebrated far and near for feats of strength and many tough bouts at wrestling and the quarterstaff.
• I wot this was no playful bout at quarterstaff, but a grim and serious fight of real earnest.
• Also, I taught them quarter-staff, until the game became a very contagion and broken heads anything but novelties.
• And wherever there was a wonder to be seen, Carew had Nick see it, though it cost a penny a peep, and lifted him to watch the fencing and quarter-staff play in the market-place.
• Nor did he confine himself to these, but added the theory and practice of boxing, cudgel play, and quarter-staff.
• I can wield a quarterstaff as well as a prize-fighter, and have beaten Figg himself at the broadsword.
• He was a clean-shaven fellow, and very sturdy and quick, and a good hand at cut and thrust and the quarter-staff, as I had seen for myself at Hare Street on the summer evenings.
• Besides, the bow, now it is unstrung, makes an excellent quarterstaff, a weapon with which I have practiced a great deal.
• Roger rapidly discharged five arrows into the midst of them, and then slipped the string from the notch, and seized the bamboo as a quarterstaff.
• Finding that, in spite of his efforts, he could not keep back his assailants, Roger threw down the quarterstaff and seized his ax.
• It smacks of cudgel-play, of quarter-staff, of wrestling, of honest fisticuffs.
• He carried his short sword and a quarterstaff, a weapon by no means to be despised in the hands of an active and experienced player.

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