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Bludgeon vs Quarterstaff - What's the difference?

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Bludgeon is a related term of quarterstaff.


As nouns the difference between bludgeon and quarterstaff

is that bludgeon is a short, heavy club, often of wood, which is thicker or loaded at one end while quarterstaff is a wooden staff of an approximate length between 2 and 25 meters, sometimes tipped with iron, used as a weapon in rural england during the early modern period.

As a verb bludgeon

is to strike or hit with something hard, usually on the head; to club.

bludgeon

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A short, heavy club, often of wood, which is thicker or loaded at one end.
    • We smashed the radio with a steel bludgeon .

    See also

    * truncheon

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To strike or hit with something hard, usually on the head; to club.
    • The apprehended rioter was bludgeoned to death.
  • To coerce someone, as if with a bludgeon.
    • Their favorite method was bludgeoning us with the same old arguments in favor of their opinions.

    Synonyms

    * (to club) cudgel * (coerce) harrass, pummel

    Derived terms

    * bludgeoner

    Related terms

    * clobber * beat

    References

    *

    quarterstaff

    English

    (wikipedia quarterstaff)

    Alternative forms

    *quarter-staff *quarter staff

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • 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.
  • * 1883 , Howard Pyle, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood :
    • 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
  • Fighting or exercise with the quarterstaff.
    • He was very adept at quarterstaff .

    Usage notes

    An attestation from 1590 of a quarter Ashe staffe'' shows that the "quarter" was an apposition and could still be detached (Richard Harvey, ''Plaine Perceuall the peace-maker of England , cited after the OED). Joseph Swetnam (1615) uses "quarterstaff" in the same sense in which George Silver (1599) had used "short staff", viz. for the staff between about 2 and 2.5 meters in length, as opposed to the "long staff" of a length exceeding 3 meters. Contemporary use of the word disappears during the 18th century, and beginning with 19th-century Romanticism the word is mostly limited to antiquarian or historical usage.

    Synonyms

    * (l) (a Japanese quarterstaff) *short staff