What is a quarterstaff?

What is a quarterstaff? Here are some definitions.

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.
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The only other handweapon capable of countering it is another quarterstaff.
Across 18 short chapters, there's cracking dialogue and a lot of action – sword and shield, wrestling, boxing, quarterstaff.
Sometimes there were wrestling matches, and combat with sword and quarterstaff.
In his right hand he carried a quarterstaff, which he used as a walking-stick.
Apparently they want me to learn how to use a quarterstaff and a dagger.
However, he could find many ways to make a sword or a quarterstaff a deadly weapon.

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