quarterstaff

1. 1.

   a long stout staff used as a weapon

   Broaderstaff

Other forms of quarterstaff

plural

quarterstaves

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about quarterstaff

What does quarterstaff mean?

quarterstaff means "a long stout staff used as a weapon".

How many syllables are in quarterstaff?

quarterstaff has 3 syllables: quar-ter-staff. The stress falls on "quar".

Is quarterstaff a common word?

quarterstaff is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.