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A quarterstaff is a long, thick wooden pole, often as tall as a person or taller, used as a weapon in old England. You hold it with two hands and swing, poke, and block. Stories about Robin Hood love this weapon. It is a history-and-story word now; nobody walks around with one except in sport, film, or a museum display. The name is “” plus “staff” (a stick). It has been written down since about 1550. It probably first meant a staff cut from a log that had been split into four, so you got a strong piece from the heart of the wood — not a stick a of a metre long, which is what the word makes people guess.
長木棍（英國舊時的兩手長棍兵器；不是臺語裡隨口說的柺杖）
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
quarterstaffnoun/ˈkwɔɹtəɹˌstæf/
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A wooden staff with 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.
- Name my accuſer ſaith he, or I defye thee Kemp at the quart ſtaffe.
- [F]ew country people there are who do not love to see two sturdy fellows thwack and belabour each other with quarter-staff, single-stick, or fists.
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Fighting or exercise with a wooden staff of this sort.
- He was very adept at quarterstaff.
- First, several couples stood forth at quarterstaff, and so shrewd were they at the game, and so quickly did they give stroke and parry, that […]
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。