quarterstaff

Meaning of quarterstaff

noun
  1. 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.
  2. Fighting or exercise with the quarterstaff.
    He was very adept at quarterstaff.

Information about quarterstaff

  • It is a name.
  • The plural form of quarterstaff is: quarterstaffs.
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Hyphenation of quarterstaff

quar-ter-staff

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 12 chars.
  • quarterstaff is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

Words that rhyme with quarterstaff

Falstaff, Flagstaff, Wagstaff, acrestaff, backstaff, bedstaff, boarstaff, bocstaff, bowstaff, broomstaff, churnstaff, colstaff, cowlstaff, distaff, dragstaff, falstaff, flagstaff, forestaff, gibstaff, handstaff, overstaff, packstaff, palstaff, pikestaff, ploughstaff, plowstaff, restaff, rockstaff, runestaff, shortstaff, spittlestaff, staff, tipstaff, understaff, upstaff, waitstaff, whipstaff, wrainstaff, wringstaff

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