English-Finnish translations for quarterstaff

Definition of quarterstaff

• 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
• Fighting or exercise with the quarterstaff

Examples

• He was very adept at quarterstaff.

Related words

• quarters
• hindquarters
• headquarters
• three-quarters majority
• at close quarters
• three quarters
• beat to quarters
• close quarters
• crew quarters