Crossword-Solution: QUARTERSTAFF
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Quarterstaff | 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. |
We have 7 clues for the answer “QUARTERSTAFF”
| Clue | Answers |
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| A heavy pole of six to eight feet long formerly used as a weapon | 1 answer |
| Little John's weapon in Robin Hood legend | 1 answer |
| Old weapon of defense | 1 answer |
| a long stout staff used as a weapon | 1 answer |
| a long wooden pole with an iron tip, an old weapon of defence | 1 answer |
| medieval weapon | 37 answers |
| Weapon. | 98 answers |
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Sentences with QUARTERSTAFF (5)
Wrestling matches, in the different fashions of Cornwall and Devonshire, were seen here and there about the market-place; in one corner, there was a friendly bout at quarterstaff; and—what attracted most interest of all—on the platform of the pillory, already so noted in our pages, two masters of defence were commencing an exhibition with the buckler and broadsword.
This request is, to bring me a man not above a foot and a half high, and whose beard is thirty feet long who carries a bar of iron upon his shoulders of five hundredweight, which he uses as a quarterstaff.” Prince Ahmed, who did not believe that there was such a man in the world as his father described, would gladly have excused himself; but the Sultan persisted in his demand, and told him the Fairy could do more incredible things.
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.
First, several couples stood forth at quarterstaff, and so shrewd were they at the game, and so quickly did they give stroke and parry, that the Sheriff, who loved to watch all lusty sports of the kind, clapped his hands, forgetting where he was, and crying aloud, "Well struck! Well struck, thou fellow with the black beard!" little knowing that the man he called upon was the Tinker that tried to serve his warrant upon Robin Hood.
Then he strolled to the platform where they were at cudgel play, for he loved a bout at quarterstaff as he loved meat and drink; and here befell an adventure that was sung in ballads throughout the mid-country for many a day.
Quotes with QUARTERSTAFF (2)
Father Hobbe, his cassock skirts hitched up to his waist, was fighting with a quarterstaff, ramming the pole into French faces. ‘In the name of the Father,’ he shouted, and a Frenchman reeled back with a pulped eye, ‘and of the Son,’ Father Hobbe snarled as he broke a man’s nose, ‘and of the Holy Ghost!
I'm not anymore because I haven't kept up with my certification, but I was a certified actor combatant in rapier, dagger, hand-to-hand, and quarterstaff.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (2007).