What is "quarterstaves"

Usage examples of "quarterstaves".

Then he and Curt padded the ends of the quarterstaves and set about working out their use.

They discovered that speed was as important as it was in fencing, which prompted Curt to remember that quarterstaves had been used as a training method for early sword-play.

They began to discuss getting the ends of their quarterstaves capped with metal before leaving Hekko Port for Joffo.

Jim turned to stare at him in time to see Curt scramble up from a seated position, dragging the two quarterstaves with him.

He spotted Curt and the Walat squared off with quarterstaves in front of the fire.

As they are, die quarterstaves are useful clubs, but with the metal caps on their ends they'll be actual weapons.

He also taught us to fight with wooden knives, and quarterstaves, and taught us archery.

He spun it like a baton, and all the other quarterstaves twisted in their owners' hands, trying to imitate Geoffrey's.

He was aware of hoarse shrieks of pain, of outlaws swinging their shields up above their heads to ward off a rain of rocks-and of the quarterstaves that thrust up at them from below.

Most of them bore quarterstaves, handling them as if they knew well how to use these formidable weapons.

Fists pounded the table, quarterstaves thudded the stony floor resoundingly.

A troop of soldiers practiced halberd play with quarterstaves, and serfs loaded wagons with barrels and boxes.

He was teaching them to use quarterstaves as spears, Coll saw, and knew that soon enough, these expert staff fighters would be the equal of any soldier who knew a spear only as a stabbing weapon.

Gar set Coll to binding some of it into imitation quarterstaves, and he set to teaching the prisoners how to use them.

But quarterstaves tipped half of them from their saddles as they leaped into motion, and the smaller knight rode to meet the rest, laying about him, parrying cut after cut and counterthrusting while knight after knight fell crashing to the ground.