"quarter-staff" meaning in English

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      "form": "quarter-staves",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1881, Walter Besant, James Rice, “How Kitty First Saw the Doctor”, in The Chaplain of the Fleet […], volume I, London: Chatto and Windus, […], →OCLC, part I (Within the Rules), page 82:",
          "text": "[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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    {
      "form": "quarter-staffs",
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        "plural"
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    },
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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